This bill adds a new section to chapter 10.109 RCW requiring the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to establish a pilot program for use of body worn cameras at Green Hill school by January 1, 2026, and requires DCYF to adopt policies for their use under RCW 10.109.010. It also amends RCW 10.109.030 to specify which state and local personnel may use body worn cameras. The bill reenacts and amends RCW 42.56.240 to create or modify public records exemptions and rules specific to body worn camera recordings, and it references many existing statutes for definitions and cross‑references. The bill defines “body worn camera recording” and references a definition of “corrections agency”; the definition of “intimate image” is incomplete in the provided text. It establishes procedural rules for requests for recordings (what information a request must include), identifies categories of people who may obtain recordings without paying redaction costs (including persons involved in the recording, their attorneys, certain state commission executive directors, and some attorneys in specific civil rights or settlement matters), bars agencies from charging those listed persons redaction fees (though identification may be required), and allows agencies to charge other requesters reasonable redaction costs only as necessary to comply with exemptions. Agencies charging redaction costs must use the least costly commercially available redaction technology when possible, and time spent on redaction that is charged to a requester must not count toward an agency’s public records response time/cost limits. The provided text appears incomplete (definition of “intimate image” cuts off and this is chunk 1 of 2), so additional provisions or clarifications may exist in the remainder of the bill. No changes to criminal penalties are shown in the provided facts.

If enacted, the bill requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to set up a body-worn camera pilot at Green Hill school by January 1, 2026 and to adopt related use policies, and it changes which corrections and law enforcement personnel may wear cameras. That will most directly increase DCYF’s responsibilities and likely create new costs for equipment, training, policy development, and managing recordings at Green Hill, while corrections and law enforcement agencies will face revised policy duties and ongoing administrative work to handle camera use and records. The bill also changes public-records rules for body-worn camera recordings: people directly involved in an incident, their attorneys, the executive directors of the state commissions on African American, Asian Pacific American, and Hispanic affairs, and certain civil-rights or DOJ-related attorneys can get recordings without paying redaction costs (agencies can still require ID). Other requesters may be charged reasonable redaction fees only as needed to comply with exemptions, using the least costly redaction technology when possible, and agencies cannot count paid redaction time against public-records response limits. The provided text is incomplete — the full definition of “intimate image” and some parts of the public-records exemptions are missing, so some practical details and limits remain unclear.