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| Access to public records allowed |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 03/27/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - A man who is serving 24 years for having the cars of two lawyers firebombed might be creeping out prosecutors by seeking information about them under the Public Records Act, but a judge has ruled he's entitled to keep asking. King County Superior Court Judge Glenna Hall said she had no authority to bar the arsonist, Allan Parmelee, from making public disclosure requests. Parmelee has filed hundreds of such requests since his incarceration, seeking records on prosecutors, prison guards, state troopers, judges and others who helped put him behind bars. Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, alarmed at the requests, took the extraordinary step of asking the judge not only to let his office ignore Parmelee's pending requests, but to bar him from filing any more unless he first obtained court permission -- an option the Public Records Act does not contemplate. Parmelee sought to harass his staff, Satterberg wrote, and giving him what he wanted could be dangerous. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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