Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 9.73 - Privacy, Violating Right Of.
9.73.020 - Opening sealed letter.

RCW 9.73.020
Opening sealed letter.

Every person who shall wilfully open or read, or cause to be opened or read, any sealed message, letter or telegram intended for another person, or publish the whole or any portion of such a message, letter or telegram, knowing it to have been opened or read without authority, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

[ 1909 c 249 § 411; RRS § 2663.]

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Revised Code of Washington

Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments

Chapter 9.73 - Privacy, Violating Right Of.

9.73.010 - Divulging telegram.

9.73.020 - Opening sealed letter.

9.73.030 - Intercepting, recording, or divulging private communication—Consent required—Exceptions.

9.73.040 - Intercepting private communication—Court order permitting interception—Grounds for issuance—Duration—Renewal.

9.73.050 - Admissibility of intercepted communication in evidence.

9.73.060 - Violating right of privacy—Civil action—Liability for damages.

9.73.070 - Persons and activities excepted from chapter.

9.73.080 - Penalties.

9.73.090 - Certain emergency response personnel exempted from RCW 9.73.030 through 9.73.080—Standards—Court authorizations—Admissibility.

9.73.095 - Intercepting, recording, or divulging offender conversations—Conditions—Notice.

9.73.100 - Recordings available to defense counsel.

9.73.110 - Intercepting, recording, or disclosing private communications—Not unlawful for building owner—Conditions.

9.73.120 - Reports—Required, when, contents.

9.73.130 - Recording private communications—Authorization—Application for, contents.

9.73.140 - Recording private communications—Authorization of or application for—Inventory, contents, service—Availability of recording, applications, and orders.

9.73.200 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances—Findings.

9.73.210 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances or commercial sexual abuse of a minor—Authorization—Monthly report—Admissibility—Destruction of information.

9.73.220 - Judicial authorizations—Availability of judge required.

9.73.230 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances or commercial sexual abuse of a minor—Conditions—Written reports required—Judicial review—Notice—Admissibility—Penalties.

9.73.240 - Intercepting, transmitting, or recording conversations concerning controlled substances—Concurrent power of attorney general to investigate and prosecute.

9.73.260 - Pen registers, trap and trace devices, cell site simulator devices.

9.73.270 - Collecting, using electronic data or metadata—Cell site simulator devices—Requirements.