It is the policy of the legislature that employees should be encouraged to disclose, to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, improper governmental actions, and it is the intent of the legislature to protect the rights of state employees making these disclosures, regardless of whether an investigation is initiated under RCW 42.40.040. It is also the policy of the legislature that employees should be encouraged to identify rules warranting review or provide information to the rules review committee, and it is the intent of the legislature to protect the rights of these employees.
RCW 42.40.010
Policy.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006)
Most recently applied in 193 Wash. 2d 672 - Karstetter v. King County Corr. Guild (July 2019)
2017 c 44 s 1; 1995 c 403 s 508; 1982 c 208 s 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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