Washington state regulations determine that records documenting public activities such as court documents, arrest records, marriage certificates, traffic violations and more are open and available to the populace, largely due to the Washington's 1973 Public Records Act. This data contain titles, dates, information on incidences, sentences, procedures and a lot more, and are also all assumed public unless otherwise stated. Both regulators and offenders may be held responsible for their behaviour as a result of these laws, which offer the citizenry with the tools they will need to examine concerns separate from their authorities.