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Councilmembers, board members, and employees shall not disclose to any unauthorized person any confidential City information. No Councilmember, board member or employee shall disclose or use confidential City information for direct or indirect personal gain or benefit. Although records and documents maintained by the City are generally public records available for public inspection and copying, the following are exempt from public inspection and copying and shall not be disclosed or provided by any Councilmember, board member or employee:

A. Personal information and any files maintained for prisoners;

B. Personal information in any files maintained for City employees, appointees or elected officials to the extent the disclosure would violate their right to privacy;

C. References or other information pertaining to the employment of former City employees, other than the fact of employment, job position and term of employment, unless the request for such reference or information be in writing and unless the former employee shall have filed a written consent with the City;

D. Information required of any taxpayer or City license holder in connection with the assessment or collection of any tax or license fee if the disclosure of the information to other persons would violate the taxpayer or licensee’s right to privacy or would result in unfair competitive disadvantage to such taxpayer or licensee;

E. Specific intelligence information and specific investigative files compiled by investigative, law enforcement, and penology agencies, and state agencies vested with the responsibility to discipline members of any profession, the nondisclosure of which is essential to effective law enforcement or for the protection of any person’s right to privacy;

F. Information revealing the identity of persons who file complaints with investigative, law enforcement, or penology agencies, if disclosure would endanger any person’s life, physical safety, or property, or if the complainant has indicated a desire for nondisclosure;

G. Test questions, scoring keys and other examination data used to administer license, employment or civil service examinations;

H. Except as provided by Chapter 8.25 RCW, the contents of any real estate appraisals made for or by an agency, including the City, relative to the acquisition of property by the City until the property is abandoned or until such time as all of the property has been acquired, but in no event shall disclosure be denied for more than three years after the date of the appraisal;

I. Valuable formulas, designs, drawings and research data obtained or produced by the City, its officers, public officials and employees and agents within five years of any request for disclosure thereof, when disclosure would produce private gain and public loss;

J. Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations and intra-departmental memorandums in which opinions are expressed or policies formulated or recommended, except that a specific record shall not be exempt when publicly cited by the City in connection with any public action;

K. Records which are relevant to a controversy to which the City or any of its officers, Councilmembers or employees or agents is a party, but which records would not be available to another party under the rules of pretrial discovery for causes pending in the superior courts;

L. Lists of individuals requested for commercial purposes;

M. Any public record access which the Pierce County Superior Court has found would damage any person or vital governmental function;

N. Residence addresses and telephone numbers of Councilmember, board member or employee, utility customers, and any other person who has, in writing, requested nondisclosure by reason that such disclosure would endanger that person’s life, physical safety, or property;

O. Applications for employment, including the name of applicant, resume, and other related material submitted with respect to an applicant;

P. Any information which is exempt from the disclosure requirements of state law. [Ord. 27 § 9, 1996.]