Wash. Admin. Code § 388-01-005 - Definitions
The following definitions apply to this chapter:
(1) "Authorization" means a detailed document
that gives DSHS permission to use or disclose confidential information and
records for specified purposes and within a designated time frame.
(2) "Business days" means Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays.
(3) "Client" means a person who receives
services or benefits from DSHS. Clients include but are not limited to,
consumers, recipients, applicants, residents of DSHS facilities or
institutions, patients, parents receiving support enforcement services, persons
who previously received services or benefits, and persons applying for benefits
or services.
(4) "DSHS" means the
department of social and health services.
(5) "Public records coordinator" means a
person designated to respond to public records requests within an
organizational unit or who are appointed as responsible for a local office,
unit, region, program, or facility.
(6) "Public records officer" means the person
designated as the public records officer for the DSHS under
RCW
42.56.580. The DSHS public records officer
has primary responsibility for management, oversight, and monitoring of DSHS's
public records request process.
(7)
"Redact" means deleting or marking out exempt information from a public
record.
(8) "Third party notice"
means notifying affected persons or entities of a public records request to
allow the opportunity to enjoin disclosure of the records under
RCW
42.56.540.
Notes
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