RCW 70.24.022
Interviews, examination, counseling, or treatment of infected persons or persons believed to be infected—Dissemination of false information—Penalty.
(1) The board shall adopt rules authorizing interviews and the state and local public health officers and their authorized representatives may interview, or cause to be interviewed, all persons infected with a sexually transmitted disease and all persons who, in accordance with standards adopted by the board by rule, are reasonably believed to be infected with such diseases for the purpose of investigating the source and spread of the diseases and for the purpose of ordering a person to submit to examination, counseling, or treatment as necessary for the protection of the public health and safety, subject to RCW 70.24.024.
(2) State and local public health officers or their authorized representatives shall investigate identified partners of persons infected with sexually transmitted diseases in accordance with procedures prescribed by the board.
(3) All information gathered in the course of contact investigation pursuant to this section shall be considered confidential.
(4) No person contacted under this section or reasonably believed to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease who reveals the name or names of sexual contacts during the course of an investigation shall be held liable in a civil action for such revelation, unless the revelation is made with a knowing or reckless disregard for the truth.
(5) Any person who knowingly or maliciously disseminates any false information or report concerning the existence of any sexually transmitted disease under this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable as provided under RCW 9A.20.021.
[ 1988 c 206 § 906.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
70.24.005 - Transfer of duties to the department of health.
70.24.015 - Legislative finding.
70.24.025 - Violations of health order—Penalties.
70.24.027 - Intentional transmission of HIV—Penalties.
70.24.034 - Detention—Grounds—Order—Hearing.
70.24.050 - Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases—Confirmation—Anonymous prevalence reports.
70.24.070 - Detention and treatment facilities.
70.24.084 - Violations of chapter—Aggrieved persons—Right of action.
70.24.090 - Pregnant women—Test for syphilis.
70.24.110 - Minors—Treatment, consent, liability for payment for care.
70.24.120 - Sexually transmitted disease case investigators—Authority to obtain specimens.
70.24.130 - Adoption of rules.
70.24.150 - Immunity of certain public employees.
70.24.220 - Sexually transmitted disease education in public schools—Finding.
70.24.290 - Public school employees—Rules for blood-borne pathogens education and training.
70.24.325 - Testing—Insurance requirements.
70.24.340 - Employees' substantial exposure to bodily fluids—Procedure and court orders.
70.24.360 - Jail detainees—Testing of persons who present a possible risk.
70.24.370 - Correction facility inmates—Testing—Procedure.
70.24.420 - Additional local funding of treatment programs not required.
70.24.430 - Application of chapter to persons subject to jurisdiction of department of corrections.
70.24.450 - Confidentiality—Reports—Unauthorized disclosures.
70.24.901 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.