Articles by Colin Donohue

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Digital Media Law Project: Metadata as a Public Record: What it Means, What it Does

July 26, 2013

From the Digital Media Law Project (7/25/13): The failure to comply with a records request for email metadata will cost a Washington city more than half a million dollars in statutory and attorney's fees, a Washington Superior Court judge recently decided. On June 28, 2013, the judge ordered the City of Shoreline to pay $538,555 after the Washington Supreme Court ruled that metadata associated with public records is subject to disclosure under the state's open records law.