The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- King County, Washington · Seattle · Washington
- Level
- County
- Authority
- RCW 70.05.070(2)-(3); WAC 246-100-036 (including (3), involuntary detention)
- Issued
- 2020-03-28 Mar. 28, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-28 ('EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY') (read as 2020-03-28)
- End
- No rescission located through Sept. 30, 2021 (read as 2020-06-02)
- In force
- Mar. 28, 2020 to June 2, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- every person in King County who tested positive
- every symptomatic person with a test pending
- Functions reached
- WF workforce (every positive or symptomatic-pending worker removed from the workplace by law)
- HR screening and return-to-work
- CB customers under isolation
- Collection
- Seattle MET-SEA
Operative words
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, as Local Health Officer I hereby DIRECT and ORDER as follows: QUARANTINE DIRECTIVE. Everyone with COVID-19 symptoms (fever, cough, and/or difficulty breathing) who has a test result pending, shall stay in a quarantine location... ISOLATION ORDER. All individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 shall enter and remain in isolation as follows: Do not leave your home or recovery facility, except to receive medical care.... Individuals who recklessly disregard this directive and order or who otherwise fail to comply may be subject to involuntary detention pursuant to public health authority under RCW 70.05.070 (2)-(3) and WAC 246-100-036 (3).
Enforcement
Involuntary detention under RCW 70.05.070(2)-(3) and WAC 246-100-036(3)
Notes
Recitals verify, from the issuing authority's own text: King County Executive's emergency proclamation of Mar. 1, 2020; the Local Health Officer's Mar. 11, 2020 order halting events over 250 and conditioning events of 250 or fewer; Proclamation 20-25 of Mar. 23, 2020.
Retrieval noteAnnounced in the Public Health Insider update of Mar. 28, 2020.