Washington use-of-force policy register

These are the AGO’s words, not ours. The status column is reproduced exactly as the AGO writes it and is not a yes or a no. Police Census has not graded, scored or checked any agency’s policy, and a status here is not a finding by us.

Dates matter. Every status below is printed together with the AGO’s “Last Updated” date. A date is when the AGO’s entry was last updated, not a date on which anyone checked the agency’s current policy, and many are years old. Where the AGO shows no date, the row says so, and the absence of a date is not evidence that anything was checked.

236 of 271 rows are matched to an agency in the FBI register and link to its page; 35 are not. The register is the FBI’s agency register that agency pages here are built on. The AGO’s list is not the same list: it also carries state agencies, commissions and similar bodies, and some names could not be matched to exactly one register agency. A row is matched only when the name resolves to a single agency, because a wrong match would put one department’s status on another’s page. The 35 unmatched rows are listed in full below, marked “No agency page,” so their absence from agency pages is not silent.