Washington
Washington’s Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) certifies county and city jail corrections officers, while the Department of Corrections (DOC) sets training for its own prison staff, who are not certified. No state body sets or inspects jail standards. Since 2023 the State has made custodial sexual misconduct a felony at both degrees, restored the jail share of academy costs, kept part-time service from ending a jail officer’s certification, opened custody jobs to work-authorized non-citizens, set jail rules for searching transgender and intersex people, and widened DOC bargaining rights.
- Sources checked
- Part of
- Corrections Ledger
At a glance
- Certifying body
- CJTC certifies “corrections officers,” meaning corrections agency employees whose primary job is custody, safety, and security of adults “in jails and detention facilities”; the definition “does not include individuals employed by state agencies” (RCW 43.101.010). Jail officers are therefore CJTC-certified, as covered on the Washington Officer Ledger page. DOC prison officers are not: DOC “is responsible for identifying training standards, designing curricula and programs, and providing the training” for its prisons division staff (RCW 43.101.220(3)(a)).
- Statute
- RCW 43.101 (CJTC: certification, background investigations, denial, suspension, and revocation, the public database, corrections training); RCW 10.93.165 and 43.101.098 (corrections officer work authorization); RCW 70.48 (City and County Jails Act, including 70.48.071 local standards, 70.48.500 pregnant restraints, 70.48.506 transgender and intersex searches); RCW 72.09 (DOC); RCW 9A.44.160 to .170 (custodial sexual misconduct); RCW 41.80.200 (DOC interest arbitration). Rules: WAC 139.
- Minimum standards
- Certification is a condition of employment for jail corrections officers and follows a background investigation covering criminal history, any national decertification index, CJTC records, and prior employers (RCW 43.101.095). For jobs whose primary function is custody, safety, and security of adults in state correctional facilities or local jails, agencies may consider citizens or anyone “legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law” (RCW 10.93.165(2), since March 18, 2026). No statewide minimum age was found in RCW 43.101 or WAC 139.
- Basic training
- Corrections personnel of the state, counties, and cities must complete basic corrections training that meets CJTC standards. For certified corrections officers hired on or after July 1, 2021, it must be “at least ten weeks in length” and completed within the first six months of employment unless extended or waived (RCW 43.101.220(1)). Employing agencies pay CJTC 25% of the cost in fiscal year 2025 and the 2025 to 2027 biennium (43.101.220(2)). DOC prison staff train under DOC standards (43.101.220(3)(a)); their academy length was not verified.
- In-service training
- 24 hours a year for every certified officer, including CJTC’s annual online crisis intervention course; since January 1, 2026 this covers certified corrections officers (WAC 139-05-300, as amended by WSR 24-07-043). Jails must train security staff to conduct cross-gender searches and searches of transgender and intersex people professionally and in the least intrusive manner (RCW 70.48.506(1)(b), in force June 11, 2026; jails had to adopt compliant standards by September 1, 2026 under 70.48.506(4)).
- Decertification
- CJTC may deny, suspend, or revoke corrections officer certification on the grounds in RCW 43.101.105, through the hearing process described on the Officer Ledger page. Public database: yes, by statute (RCW 43.101.400(4)). A jail officer’s certification lapses after a break of more than 24 consecutive months in corrections service (43.101.126).
- Jail standards
- No state body sets or inspects jail standards. Each city, county, or regional jail operator adopts its own operating standards, after considering guidelines developed collectively by cities or counties, at the minimums needed to meet constitutional and statutory requirements (RCW 70.48.071, since 1988). A joint legislative task force on jail standards (RCW 70.48.801) was directed to recommend statewide minimum standards and whether to restore “a statewide authority to set mandatory minimum jail standards and conduct inspections”; no such authority had been enacted as of October 20, 2026.
- Probation and parole officers
- DOC runs felony community supervision; community corrections officers are DOC employees. CJTC and DOC develop their training standards jointly (RCW 43.101.220(3)(b)). As state employees they are outside CJTC corrections officer certification, which covers jail staff (43.101.010). DOC employees with interest arbitration rights negotiate one master agreement, and since 2025 DOC managers in the Washington management service also have interest arbitration (RCW 41.80.200, 41.80.010).
- Restrictive housing
- No statute limiting solitary confinement or restrictive housing in DOC prisons or local jails was found in RCW 72.09 or 70.48 (searched October 20, 2026). HB 1087 (2023 to 2024), on solitary confinement, was not enacted. The jail standards task force was directed to compare Washington jails’ “use of solitary confinement” with other states (RCW 70.48.801(6)(c)).
- Corrections use of force
- Pregnant women and youth, in jails (RCW 70.48.500) and DOC (72.09.651): except in extraordinary circumstances documented in writing, no restraints during transport to medical visits and court in the third trimester or during postpartum recovery, and no restraints of any kind during labor or childbirth. When restraints are allowed they must be the least restrictive, and “in no case shall leg irons or waist chains be used on any woman or youth known to be pregnant.” Correctional staff may not be in the room during labor unless medical staff ask. Jails may not search a transgender or intersex person “for the sole purpose of determining the individual’s genital status” (70.48.506). Staff sexual contact with inmates or supervisees is custodial sexual misconduct, a felony at both degrees since 2023 (9A.44.160 to .170). No corrections-specific use-of-force statute was found in RCW 72.09 or 70.48.
Changes, 2023 to 2026
Jail rules for searching transgender and intersex people
Jail administrators must adopt search policies that meet this section and the federal PREA rules in effect on January 1, 2025. “A search or physical examination may not be conducted on a transgender or intersex individual confined at the jail for the sole purpose of determining the individual’s genital status.” Jails must train security staff in cross-gender searches and searches of transgender and intersex people. A strip search of a transgender or intersex person must be done by a medical professional, by female staff only, by staff of the gender the person prefers, or according to the person’s stated gender identity, and the person is offered those options under RCW 10.79.100(8). Jails must let people shower, perform bodily functions, and change without nonmedical staff of the opposite gender viewing their breasts, buttocks, or genitalia, except in exigent circumstances or incidental to routine cell checks, and opposite-gender staff must announce themselves on entering a housing unit.
For corrections staff: Before strip-searching a transgender or intersex person, offer the search options in RCW 10.79.100(8) and document the choice.
DOC unions may bargain over supplemental retirement contributions
Retirement plans and benefits stay a management right, but “For department of corrections employees, subsection (1)(e) of this section does not prevent the employer from bargaining over contributions for supplemental retirement benefits, including medical plans, administered by, or on behalf of, an employee organization that represents department of corrections employees” (RCW 41.80.040(2)).
For corrections staff: Union-run supplemental retirement and retiree medical plans for DOC staff can now be bargained.
Work-authorized non-citizens eligible for prison and jail custody jobs
New RCW 10.93.165(2): “For purposes of hiring an employee whose primary job function is to provide for the custody, safety, and security of adult persons in state correctional facilities or local jails,” an agency “may consider the application of a citizen of the United States or a person who is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law.” New 43.101.098 and amended 43.101.095 align corrections officer certification. Amended 43.101.105 bars denying or revoking certification solely on a federal firearms prohibition tied only to immigration status where 18 U.S.C. 925(a)(1) allows possession. Peace officers remain limited to citizens, permanent residents, and DACA recipients.
For corrections staff: Jails and DOC can hire work-authorized non-citizens as custody officers.
Part-time corrections service keeps a jail officer’s certification from lapsing
“A corrections officer’s certification lapses automatically when there is a break of more than 24 consecutive months in the officer’s service as a corrections officer.” The act strikes “full-time” from that sentence, so part-time corrections service now prevents a lapse. Breaks due solely to appeal of a disciplinary discharge or to a work-related injury still do not cause a lapse. The act also applies background investigations to moves between peace officer and corrections roles and changes certification hearing procedure, so that the administrative law judge no longer issues a proposed recommendation and the panel decides.
For corrections staff: Part-time jail work keeps your certification active; a gap of more than 24 months from all corrections work still ends it.
DOC managers in the Washington management service gain interest arbitration
RCW 41.80.200 gives DOC employees interest arbitration in place of strikes so that supervision of offenders is not interrupted. The act strikes the exclusion of “members of the Washington management service,” so DOC managers in bargaining units can take an impasse to binding interest arbitration. Confidential employees and internal auditors remain excluded.
For corrections staff: Represented DOC managers can go to binding interest arbitration if contract talks stall.
DOC unions with interest arbitration exempt from coalition bargaining
State-employee unions with fewer than 500 members normally bargain as a coalition. The act exempts unions representing DOC employees with interest arbitration rights under 41.80.200, other than those representing DOC marine department employees: “For department of corrections employees, the governor or the governor’s designee and an exclusive bargaining representative shall negotiate one master collective bargaining agreement.”
For corrections staff: Smaller DOC bargaining units negotiate their own master agreement instead of joining the state coalition.
Jails again pay 25% of the basic corrections academy cost
CJTC provides basic corrections training with facilities, materials, and room and board, “except during fiscal year 2025 and during the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium, when the employing county, municipal corporation, or state agency shall reimburse the commission for twenty-five percent of the cost of training its personnel.” The same cost share applied in the 2017 to 2023 biennia and was absent for fiscal year 2024. The 2025 to 2027 operating budget extends it to June 30, 2027.
For corrections staff: Jail budgets must cover a quarter of each new officer’s 10-week academy cost through June 30, 2027.
Custodial sexual misconduct by corrections staff becomes a felony at both degrees
Custodial sexual misconduct is sexual intercourse (first degree) or sexual contact (second degree) by a corrections agency employee or contractor with a person in a jail, prison, detention center, or work release facility, or under correctional supervision, where the employee has or is believed to have influence over the person’s incarceration or supervision; consent is no defense. The act raises first degree from a class C to a class B felony, and second degree from a gross misdemeanor to a class C felony: “Custodial sexual misconduct in the second degree is a … class C felony.” It updates the seriousness levels in RCW 9.94A.515.
For corrections staff: Any sexual contact with an inmate or supervisee is a felony, and the person’s consent is no defense.
Enacted, not yet in force, pending, and bills that did not pass
- Academy cost share ends June 30, 2027: the 25% employer share in RCW 43.101.220(2) runs through the 2025 to 2027 biennium unless the next budget extends it. RCW 43.101.220
- Statewide jail standards authority: the jail standards task force was directed to consider restoring a statewide authority to set mandatory jail standards and inspect jails (RCW 70.48.801(7)(b)); none had been enacted as of October 20, 2026. RCW 70.48.801
- Pregnant incarcerated individuals: 2025 c 129 (SSB 5182) amended RCW 72.09.588 on midwifery and doula services, and one version takes effect June 30, 2027; it was not reviewed for staff duties.
Not enacted: HB 1087 (2023 to 2024), limits on solitary confinement, which died at the end of the biennium. HB 1087 A full sweep for failed corrections bills was not made.
Checked and unchanged
- RCW 10.93.165 lists 2024 c 11 s 1 and 2026 c 103 s 1 in its history. The 2024 act enacted the section, which lets agencies consider lawful permanent residents for agency positions; its effective date was not confirmed, so it is not counted as an entry.
- RCW 43.101.095 (certification and background investigations, including for corrections officers) was also amended by 2023 c 168 and 2024 c 330; those amendments were not reviewed here. See the Officer Ledger page for the current text.
- Not counted: 2026 c 174 (ESHB 2508, Office of Independent Investigations), whose definitions cover deaths and injuries involving jail and correctional facility staff; whether that language is new in 2026 was not compared, because the 2021 session law returned HTTP 404. 2026 c 258 (2SSB 5974) amended RCW 43.101.400 and 43.101.115; its corrections-specific effects were not compared.
- Not verified: DOC prison officer academy length, hiring minimums, and in-service hours, which DOC sets by policy under RCW 43.101.220(3)(a).
Bills in the legislature
Bills in the current session whose title concerns corrections officers, jails, probation and parole, and conditions of confinement, found automatically in LegiScan's copy of the legislature's records and refreshed daily (last on October 21, 2026). This list is not reviewed by an editor and is not a summary of the bills; each links to the legislature's own page, which controls. Bills that become law are added to the dated entries above once checked.
- Introduced
HB1137: Establishing uniform policies and procedures within department of corrections facilities relating to disciplinary proceedings and administrative segregation.
Last action January 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Passed one chamber
HB1233: Concerning work programs for incarcerated persons.
Last action January 12, 2026: Referred to Community Safety.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Introduced
HB1239: Preparing incarcerated people for successful reentry upon release from a correctional facility.
Last action February 4, 2026: Referred to Appropriations.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Introduced
SB5409: Concerning a pilot program creating a healthier environment for correctional officers, department of corrections staff, and individuals within a correctional facility.
Last action January 12, 2026: By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Passed one chamber
SB5972: Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding the definition of uniformed personnel regarding correctional officers for purposes of interest arbitration.
Last action March 12, 2026: By resolution, returned to Senate Rules Committee for third reading.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Enacted
HB2539: Concerning inmate funds.
Last action March 24, 2026: Effective date 6/11/2026.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
- Introduced
HB2670: Increasing the maximum authorized term of imprisonment for certain gross misdemeanor offenses.
Last action January 26, 2026: First reading, referred to Community Safety.. 2025-2026 Regular Session.
The law, section by section
Every section of the statutes and rules this page relies on that could be read from an official source, 305 in all, each linked to the official text. Headings are copied from the official tables of contents, checked October 21, 2026.
Revised Code of Washington: Criminal Justice Training Commission, jails, Department of Corrections, and related sectionsStatute · 245 sections
Official text current through Washington State Legislature RCW and WAC pages (Code Reviser's current codification), read 2026-10-21. Chapters 43.101 (same list as the Officer Ledger library), 70.48, and 72.09 are listed whole; from chapters 10.93, 9A.44, and 41.80 only the sections the page cites. Headings are the section captions on the official chapter pages; repealed and recodified sections (listed separately as dispositions) are omitted. RCW chs. 43.101, 70.48, 72.09; 10.93.165; 9A.44.160-.170; 41.80.200, official text
CHAPTER 43.101 RCW. CRIMINAL JUSTICE TRAINING COMMISSION—EDUCATION AND TRAINING STANDARDS BOARDS
- 43.101.010 Definitions
- 43.101.020 Commission created—Purpose
- 43.101.021 Policy
- 43.101.030 Membership
- 43.101.040 Terms of members—Vacancies
- 43.101.050 Cessation of membership upon termination of office or employment
- 43.101.060 Chair and vice chair—Quorum—Meetings
- 43.101.070 Compensation—Reimbursement of travel expenses
- 43.101.080 Commission powers and duties—Rules and regulations
- 43.101.085 Additional powers and duties
- 43.101.095 Peace and corrections officer certification—Background investigation
- 43.101.098 Corrections officers—Work authorization
- 43.101.105 Denial, suspension, or revocation of peace and corrections officer certification
- 43.101.115 Denial or revocation of peace or corrections officer certification—Readmission to academy—Reinstatement
- 43.101.121 Denial or revocation of certification—Subsequent certification as corrections officer or peace officer
- 43.101.125 Lapsed peace officer certification—Reinstatement—Rules
- 43.101.126 Lapsed corrections officer certification—Reinstatement—Rules
- 43.101.135 Separation of peace or corrections officer—Notification to commission—Investigation—Civil penalty
- 43.101.145 Written complaint to deny, suspend, or revoke peace or corrections officer certification—Immunity of complainant
- 43.101.155 Denial, suspension, or revocation of peace or corrections officer certification—Statement of charges—Notice—Hearing
- 43.101.157 Tribal police officer certification
- 43.101.170 Training and education obtained at approved existing institutions
- 43.101.190 Grants, funds, or gifts—Administration—Utilization of federal funds
- 43.101.200 Law enforcement personnel—Basic law enforcement training required—Commission to provide
- 43.101.205 Training on interaction with persons with substance use disorders
- 43.101.220 Training for corrections personnel
- 43.101.221 Training for corrections personnel—Core training requirements
- 43.101.222 Training for students enrolled at institutions of higher education
- 43.101.224 Training for persons investigating child sexual abuse
- 43.101.225 Training on vehicular pursuits
- 43.101.227 Training for interaction with persons with a developmental disability or mental illness
- 43.101.230 Training for tribal police officers and employees authorized—Conditions
- 43.101.240 Community-police partnership
- 43.101.250 Firearms certificate program for *private detectives
- 43.101.260 Firearms certificate program for security guards
- 43.101.270 Sexual assault—Training for investigating and prosecuting
- 43.101.272 Sexual assault and gender-based violence—Training for persons investigating
- 43.101.273 Sexual assault—Training for persons prosecuting
- 43.101.274 Sexual assault—Training curriculum modification
- 43.101.276 Sexual and gender-based violence—Training curriculum requirements
- 43.101.278 Sexual assault—Development of proposal for case review program
- 43.101.279 Sexual assault—Statewide resource prosecutor grant program
- 43.101.280 Ethnic and cultural diversity—Development of curriculum for understanding—Training
- 43.101.290 Training regarding hate crime offenses
- 43.101.300 Juvenile runaways—Policy manual
- 43.101.350 Core training requirements
- 43.101.360 Report to the legislature
- 43.101.365 Child abuse and neglect—Development of curriculum
- 43.101.370 Child abuse and neglect—Intensive training
- 43.101.380 Hearings—Panel membership—Standard of proof—Appeals—Judicial review
- 43.101.390 Immunity of commission
- 43.101.400 Confidentiality of records—Public database
- 43.101.410 Racial profiling—Policies—Training—Complaint review process—Data collection and reporting
- 43.101.415 Racial profiling—Reports to the legislature
- 43.101.419 Motorcycle profiling
- 43.101.420 Personal crisis recognition and crisis intervention services—Training
- 43.101.425 Communications to crisis referral services—Confidentiality of communications and records
- 43.101.427 Crisis intervention training—Rules
- 43.101.428 Domestic violence investigation training
- 43.101.430 Criminal justice training commission firing range maintenance account
- 43.101.435 Washington internet crimes against children account
- 43.101.440 Testimony of children under age fourteen—Remote testimony—Number of child sexual abuse cases referred for prosecution and number prosecuted—Annual survey—Reports to the legislature
- 43.101.450 Violence de-escalation training
- 43.101.452 Mental health training
- 43.101.455 Violence de-escalation and mental health training—Adoption of rules—Training requirements
- 43.101.460 Audits—Deadly force investigations
- 43.101.465 Audits—Law enforcement agency training and certification requirements
- 43.101.470 Audits—Costs and fees
- 43.101.480 Medicolegal forensic investigation training required for coroners and medical examiners—Exceptions
- 43.101.490 Basic training
- 43.101.495 Written model policy—Duty to intervene
- 43.101.500 Trial skills training for prosecutors
- 43.101.505 Law student rural public prosecution program
- 43.101.515 Training program—First responder peer supporters
- 43.101.520 Training program—Mental health and substance use disorder professionals treating first responders
- 43.101.525 First responder peer support network—Professional directory
- 43.101.530 First responder peer support services programs—Grants
- 43.101.540 Local law enforcement grant program
- 43.101.541 Local law enforcement grant program—Reports
- 43.101.542 Supplemental criminal justice account
- 43.101.801 Development of policies, procedures, and rules—2021 c 323
- 43.101.802 Task force on first responder wellness
- 43.101.803 Model standards for canine fentanyl detection
- 43.101.901 Transfer of conference center
- 43.101.902 Effective date—2001 c 167
CHAPTER 70.48 RCW. CITY AND COUNTY JAILS ACT
- 70.48.020 Definitions
- 70.48.071 Standards for operation—Adoption by units of local government
- 70.48.090 Interlocal contracts for jail services—Neighboring states—Responsibility for operation of jail—City or county departments of corrections authorized
- 70.48.095 Regional jails
- 70.48.100 Jail register, open to the public—Records confidential—Exception
- 70.48.130 Emergency or necessary medical and health care for confined persons—Reimbursement procedures—Conditions—Limitations
- 70.48.135 Pregnant inmates—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations
- 70.48.140 Confinement pursuant to authority of the United States
- 70.48.160 Post-approval limitation on funding
- 70.48.170 Short title
- 70.48.180 Authority to locate and operate jail facilities—Counties
- 70.48.190 Authority to locate and operate jail facilities—Cities and towns
- 70.48.210 Farms, camps, work release programs, and special detention facilities
- 70.48.215 Booking patients of state hospitals
- 70.48.220 Confinement may be wherever jail services are contracted—Defendant contact with defense counsel
- 70.48.230 Transportation and temporary confinement of prisoners
- 70.48.240 Transfer of felons from jail to state institution—Time limit
- 70.48.245 Transfer of persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injuries from jail to department of corrections facility
- 70.48.380 Special detention facilities—Fees for cost of housing
- 70.48.390 Fee payable by person being booked
- 70.48.400 Sentences to be served in state institutions—When—Sentences that may be served in jail—Financial responsibility of city or county
- 70.48.410 Financial responsibility for convicted felons
- 70.48.420 Financial responsibility for persons detained on parole hold
- 70.48.430 Financial responsibility for work release inmates detained in jail
- 70.48.440 Office of financial management to establish reimbursement rate for cities and counties—Rate until June 30, 1985—Reestablishment of rates
- 70.48.450 Local jail reporting form—Information to be provided by city or county requesting payment for prisoners from state
- 70.48.460 Contracts for incarceration services for prisoners not covered by RCW 70.48.400 through 70.48.450
- 70.48.470 Sex, kidnapping offenders—Notices to offenders, law enforcement officials
- 70.48.475 Release of offender or defendant subject to a discharge review—Required notifications
- 70.48.480 Communicable disease prevention guidelines
- 70.48.490 Delivery and administration of medications and medication assistance by nonpractitioner jail personnel—Conditions
- 70.48.500 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances
- 70.48.501 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff, women, or youth of childbearing age in custody
- 70.48.502 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Limited immunity from liability
- 70.48.506 Local jails—Searches of transgender and intersex individuals
- 70.48.510 Unexpected fatality review—Records—Discovery
- 70.48.520 Collaboration with managed care organizations
- 70.48.530 Release from custody—Information on opioid substance use disorder treatment programs
- 70.48.540 Obtaining a state-issued identicard—Individuals in custody
- 70.48.800 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Informational packet
- 70.48.801 Jail standards task force
CHAPTER 72.09 RCW. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
- 72.09.010 Legislative intent
- 72.09.015 Definitions
- 72.09.030 Department created—Secretary
- 72.09.040 Transfer of functions from department of social and health services
- 72.09.050 Powers and duties of secretary
- 72.09.055 Affordable housing—Inventory of suitable property
- 72.09.057 Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records
- 72.09.060 Organization of department—Program for public involvement and volunteers
- 72.09.070 Correctional industries advisory committee—Recommendations
- 72.09.080 Correctional industries advisory committee—Appointment of members, chair—Compensation—Support
- 72.09.090 Correctional industries account—Expenditure—Profits—Appropriations
- 72.09.092 Institutional welfare account
- 72.09.093 Institutional welfare account—Incarcerated individual betterment fund must be deposited
- 72.09.095 Institutional welfare account—Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation
- 72.09.100 Inmate work program—Classes of work programs—Participation—Benefits
- 72.09.101 Inmate work program—Administrators' duty
- 72.09.104 Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems
- 72.09.106 Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities
- 72.09.110 Inmates' wages—Supporting cost of corrections—Crime victims' compensation and family support
- 72.09.111 Inmate wages—Deductions—Availability of savings—Recovery of cost of incarceration—Definition
- 72.09.115 Proposed new class I correctional industries work program—Threshold analysis—Business impact analysis—Public hearing—Finding
- 72.09.116 Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure
- 72.09.120 Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities
- 72.09.130 Incentive system for participation in education and work programs—Rules—Dissemination
- 72.09.135 Adoption of standards for correctional facilities
- 72.09.190 Legal services for inmates
- 72.09.200 Transfer of files, property, and appropriations
- 72.09.210 Transfer of employees
- 72.09.220 Employee rights under collective bargaining
- 72.09.225 Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors
- 72.09.230 Duties continued during transition
- 72.09.240 Reimbursement of employees for offender assaults
- 72.09.251 Communicable disease prevention guidelines
- 72.09.260 Litter cleanup programs—Requirements
- 72.09.270 Individual reentry plan
- 72.09.275 Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights
- 72.09.280 Community justice centers
- 72.09.285 Rental voucher list—Housing providers
- 72.09.290 Correctional facility siting list
- 72.09.300 Local law and justice council—Rules
- 72.09.310 Community custody violator
- 72.09.311 Confinement of community custody violators
- 72.09.312 Community custody violations—Data and information—Report to the governor and legislature
- 72.09.315 Court-ordered treatment—Violations—Required notifications
- 72.09.320 Community placement—Liability
- 72.09.330 Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Registration—Notice to persons convicted of sex offenses and kidnapping offenses
- 72.09.333 Sex offenders—Facilities on McNeil Island
- 72.09.335 Sex offenders—Treatment assessment and opportunity
- 72.09.337 Sex offenders—Rules regarding
- 72.09.340 Supervision of sex offenders—Public safety—Policy for release plan evaluation and approval—Implementation, publicizing, notice—Rejection of residence locations of felony sex offenders of minor victims—Notice—Supervised visitation considerations
- 72.09.345 Sex offenders—Release of information to protect public—End-of-sentence review committee—Assessment—Records access—Review, classification, referral of offenders—Issuance of narrative notices
- 72.09.350 Corrections mental health center—Collaborative arrangement with University of Washington—Services for offenders with mental illness—Annual report to the legislature
- 72.09.355 Provision of behavioral health services—Inspection—Collaboration with department of health
- 72.09.370 Reentry community services program—Plan for postrelease treatment and support services—Rules
- 72.09.380 Rule making—Medicaid—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority
- 72.09.381 Rule making—Chapter 214, Laws of 1999—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority
- 72.09.400 Work ethic camp program—Findings—Intent
- 72.09.410 Work ethic camp program—Generally
- 72.09.450 Limitation on denial of access to services and supplies—Recoupment of assessments—Collections
- 72.09.460 Incarcerated individual participation in education and work programs—Postsecondary degree education opportunities—Legislative intent—Priorities—Rules—Payment of costs
- 72.09.465 Postsecondary degree education programs
- 72.09.467 Postsecondary degree education programs—Reports to the legislature
- 72.09.469 Postsecondary degree education programs—Study
- 72.09.470 Contributions for cost of privileges—Standards
- 72.09.475 Inmate institutional account—Indigency—Adjusted dollar amount
- 72.09.480 Inmate funds subject to deductions—Definitions—Exceptions—Child support collection actions
- 72.09.490 Policy on extended family visitation
- 72.09.495 Incarcerated parents—Policies to encourage family contact and engagement
- 72.09.500 Prohibition on weight-lifting
- 72.09.510 Limitation on purchasing recreational equipment and dietary supplements that increase muscle mass
- 72.09.520 Limitation on purchase of televisions
- 72.09.530 Prohibition on receipt or possession of contraband—Rules
- 72.09.535 Corrections identification card—Incarcerated persons
- 72.09.540 Inmate name change—Limitations on use—Penalty
- 72.09.560 Camp for noncitizen offenders
- 72.09.580 Offender records and reports
- 72.09.585 Mental health services information—Required inquiries and disclosures—Release to court, individuals, indeterminate sentence review board, state and local agencies
- 72.09.588 Incarcerated individuals who are pregnant—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations
- 72.09.590 Community safety
- 72.09.600 Rules—Chapter 196, Laws of 1999
- 72.09.620 Extraordinary medical placement—Reports
- 72.09.630 Custodial sexual misconduct—Investigation of allegations
- 72.09.650 Use of force by limited authority Washington peace officers—Detention of persons
- 72.09.651 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances
- 72.09.652 Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant women and youth in custody
- 72.09.670 Gang involvement among incarcerated offenders—Intervention programs—Study
- 72.09.680 Statewide security advisory committee
- 72.09.682 Multidisciplinary teams—Inmate job assignments
- 72.09.684 Training curriculum—Safety issues—Total confinement correctional facilities
- 72.09.686 Body alarms and proximity cards—Study and report
- 72.09.688 Video monitoring cameras—Study and report
- 72.09.690 Pepper spray—Plan for use
- 72.09.710 Drug offenders—Notice of release or escape
- 72.09.712 Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notification procedures
- 72.09.713 Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notice of work release placement
- 72.09.714 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Homicide, violent, and sex offenses—Rights of victims and witnesses
- 72.09.716 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Requests for notification
- 72.09.718 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Notification as additional requirement
- 72.09.720 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Consequences of failure to notify
- 72.09.730 Schools—Notice to designated recipient of offender release
- 72.09.740 Reimbursement for state patrol expenses towards water line construction for Shelton academy
- 72.09.745 Security threat groups—Information collection
- 72.09.750 Access to reentry programs and services for wrongly convicted persons
- 72.09.755 Department of corrections—Use of screening and assessment process
- 72.09.760 Facility commissary program—Access
- 72.09.765 Inmate access to telecommunication services—Contracting—Reporting
- 72.09.770 Unexpected fatality review—Records—Discovery
- 72.09.780 Abortion medications—Practice of pharmacy and wholesale distribution
- 72.09.900 Effective date—1981 c 136
- 72.09.901 Short title
- 72.09.902 Construction—1981 c 136
- 72.09.903 Savings—1981 c 136
- 72.09.904 Construction—1999 c 196
- 72.09.905 Short title—1999 c 196
- 72.09.906 Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521
CHAPTER 10.93 RCW. WASHINGTON MUTUAL AID PEACE OFFICERS POWERS ACT (SECTION 10.93.165)
- 10.93.165 Applicants—Work authorization
CHAPTER 9A.44 RCW. SEX OFFENSES (SECTIONS 9A.44.160 TO 9A.44.170)
- 9A.44.160 Custodial sexual misconduct in the first degree
- 9A.44.170 Custodial sexual misconduct in the second degree
CHAPTER 41.80 RCW. STATE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING (SECTION 41.80.200)
- 41.80.200 Department of corrections—Interest arbitration for certain employees
Washington Administrative Code, Title 139 (Criminal Justice Training Commission), selected chaptersRules · 60 sections
Official text current through Washington State Legislature RCW and WAC pages (Code Reviser's current codification), read 2026-10-21. Title 139 also has chapters on public records, prosecutors and coroners, and private security firearms certification; only the chapters on procedures, law enforcement training, certification actions, conditions of employment, crisis intervention training, and corrections are listed. WAC 139-03, 139-05, 139-06, 139-07, 139-09, 139-10, official text
CHAPTER 139-03 WAC. PROCEDURES
- 139-03-010 Adoption of model rules of procedure
- 139-03-020 Request for adjudicative proceedings
- 139-03-030 Request for exemption, waiver, extension or variance
- 139-03-045 Prehearing conferences
- 139-03-070 Burden and standard of proof
- 139-03-075 Review of initial orders
- 139-03-080 Petitions for stay of effectiveness
CHAPTER 139-05 WAC. LAW ENFORCEMENT
- 139-05-200 Requirement of basic law enforcement training for officers
- 139-05-210 Process for equivalency
- 139-05-220 Backgrounding requirement for admission in the basic law enforcement academies
- 139-05-230 Physical requirements for admission to the basic law enforcement academy
- 139-05-240 Completion requirements of basic law enforcement academies
- 139-05-241 Sponsored reserve officer requirements for basic law enforcement academy training
- 139-05-242 Readmission to the basic law enforcement academy
- 139-05-250 Basic law enforcement curriculum
- 139-05-300 Requirement for in-service training
- 139-05-810 Basic training requirement for reserve officers
- 139-05-825 Basic reserve law enforcement academy certificate of equivalency
- 139-05-915 Canines—Training and certification
- 139-05-920 Requirement of training for agriculture officers
- 139-05-925 Requirement of training for railroad police officers
- 139-05-935 Review of staff action
- 139-05-940 Exemption, waiver, extension or variance
CHAPTER 139-06 WAC. CERTIFICATION—NOTICES, INVESTIGATIONS, HEARINGS, AND ACTIONS
- 139-06-010 Certification
- 139-06-015 Tribal certification
- 139-06-020 Agency reporting requirements—Force, separation, and investigation
- 139-06-030 Investigative authority and duty to cooperate
- 139-06-040 Investigation and appeal—Procedures for misconduct
- 139-06-050 Statement of charges and notification for hearing
- 139-06-060 Hearing panels
- 139-06-070 Conference and hearings procedures
- 139-06-080 Filing of documents for hearings
- 139-06-100 Outcomes for determinations of misconduct—Denial, suspension, revocation, retraining, or dismissal of the statement of charges
- 139-06-110 Final order
- 139-06-130 Standards for readmission to academy, certification after denial, and reinstatement of certification
- 139-06-140 Hearing on petition for eligibility for certification or reinstatement of certification
- 139-06-150 Terms of suspension, probation, and retraining
- 139-06-160 Miscellaneous
CHAPTER 139-07 WAC. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
- 139-07-010 Conditional offers of employment
- 139-07-020 Background information
- 139-07-030 Psychological examination
- 139-07-040 Polygraph examination or other truth verification assessment
CHAPTER 139-09 WAC. CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING (CIT)
- 139-09-010 Definitions
- 139-09-020 Requirements of training for law enforcement personnel
- 139-09-030 Crisis intervention training—Eight-hour course
- 139-09-040 Crisis intervention team training—Forty-hour course
- 139-09-060 Exemption, waiver, extension or variance
CHAPTER 139-10 WAC. CORRECTIONS
- 139-10-210 Requirement of basic corrections training for correctional personnel
- 139-10-211 Backgrounding requirement for admission to basic corrections officers academy
- 139-10-212 Physical requirements for admission to basic corrections academies
- 139-10-213 Employment and separation of correctional personnel—Notification to commission
- 139-10-215 Equivalency process for corrections officers
- 139-10-220 Completion requirements of basic corrections academies
- 139-10-222 Readmission to basic corrections academies
- 139-10-230 Corrections officers academy eligibility and curriculum
- 139-10-235 Misdemeanant probation counselors academy eligibility and curriculum
- 139-10-237 Juvenile services academy eligibility and curriculum
- 139-10-240 Juvenile corrections officers academy eligibility and curriculum
- 139-10-245 Juvenile rehabilitation academy eligibility and curriculum
- 139-10-530 Basic community corrections officers academy and basic arrest, search, and seizure academy eligibility and curriculums
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