Law / United States / 
Washington
Campus-affiliated advocates: survivor communications and advocate records at institutions of higher education are confidential
RCW 28B.112.030; chapter 72, Laws of 2017
In force.
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- This binds the state universities, the regional universities, The Evergreen State College, the community colleges and the technical colleges, as to records of campus-affiliated advocates they employ or whose volunteers they use (RCW 28B.112.030(3)(a) and RCW 28B.10.016(4)).
- Treat survivor communications with, and records maintained by, a campus-affiliated advocate as confidential (RCW 28B.112.030(1)).
- Do not allow public inspection and copying of an advocate's records, or inspection or copying by the institution, unless the survivor consents, there is a clear, imminent risk of serious physical injury or death of the survivor or another person, federal law requires it, or a court of competent jurisdiction mandates it (RCW 28B.112.030(2)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
RCW 28B.112.030 makes advocate communications and records confidential and limits who may inspect or copy them. It requires no log or record, sets no content fields, names no audit and gives no party a right to demand a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
RCW 28B.112.030(1) makes survivor communications with, and records maintained by, campus-affiliated advocates confidential.
Records maintained by a campus-affiliated advocate are not subject to public inspection and copying and are not subject to inspection or copying by an institution of higher education unless the survivor consents, there is a clear, imminent risk of serious physical injury or death of the survivor or another person, federal law requires it, or a court of competent jurisdiction mandates it.
A campus-affiliated advocate is a sexual assault advocate or domestic violence advocate as defined in RCW 5.60.060, or a victim advocate, employed by or volunteering for an institution of higher education. A survivor is any student, faculty, staff or administrator at an institution of higher education who believes they were a victim of a sexual assault, dating or domestic violence, or stalking.
RCW 28B.10.016(4) defines institutions of higher education as the state universities, the regional universities, The Evergreen State College, the community colleges and the technical colleges.
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