Wash. Gen. R. 18

(a) Effective Date. Effective September 1, 1994, all prospective jurors shall be identified

using the jury source list as herein provided.

(b) Jury Source List. “Jury source list” means the list of all registered voters of a county,

merged with a list of licensed drivers and identicard holders who reside in that county. The list

shall specify each person's first and last name, middle initial, date of birth, gender, mailing

address, and residence address. When legally available for jury selection use, each such list shall

also specify each person’s Social Security number.

(c) Order of the Supreme Court. The jury source list shall be created utilizing the

methodology and standards set forth by Supreme Court order and by Laws of 1993, ch. 408,

subsection 1.

(d) Juror Qualification Confirmation. Each court, after consultation with the county

auditor and county clerk of its jurisdiction, shall establish a means to preliminarily determine by

written declaration signed under penalty of perjury by each person summoned, the qualifications

set forth in RCW 2.36.070 of each person summoned for jury duty prior to the person’s

appearance at the court to which the person is summoned to serve. Information so provided to the

court for preliminary determination of qualification for jury duty may only be used for the term

such person is summoned and may not be used for any other purpose. Provided, that the court, or

its designee, may report a change of address or nondelivery of summons of persons summoned

for jury duty to the county auditor.

THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON

In the Matter of the Jury ) No.

Source List Pursuant )

to General Rule 18 )

of the Washington Rules ) ORDER

of Court )

General Rule 18 of the Washington Court Rules provides that the Supreme Court of the

State of Washington should designate by order the creation of the jury source list.

Now, Therefore, It is hereby ordered:

That the jury source list shall be created according to the attached appendix describing the

methodology and standards for creating the jury source list by merging the list of registered

voters for a county with the list of licensed drivers and identicard holders who reside in that

county.

That Washington Technology Solutions shall make available by May 1, 2016, and annually

thereafter, via secure file transfer, a jury source list created by Washington Technology Solutions

according to the methodology and standards set forth in the attached appendix, and a separate list

of licensed drivers and identicard holders residing in each county, and a separate list of registered

voters residing in each county.

That each superior court may access a jury source list from Washington Technology

Solutions by May 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, via secure file transfer protocol, a list which

shall be created according to the methodology and standards set forth in the attached appendix.

Provided, that the jury source list may be created, at the direction of the presiding judge of each

superior court after consultation with the county auditor and the county clerk of that jurisdiction,

by the county, according to the methodology and standards set forth in the attached appendix. If a

superior court elects to have the jury source list created by the county the superior court may

access, via secure file transfer protocol, by May 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, a separate list of

licensed drivers and identicard holders residing in that county from Washington Technology

Solutions and a separate list of registered voters residing in that county from Washington

Technology Solutions. Each superior court may choose annually which files to transfer to their

local secure sever.

That in the event, for any reason, the jury source list is not created and available for use as

set forth above, the most recent previously compiled jury source list shall be used by the courts

on an emergency basis only for the shortest period of time until a current jury source list is

created and available for use as provided for herein.

Dated at Olympia, Washington, this ____ day of _____________, 20____.

___________________________________

Chief Justice

APPENDIX

This appendix describes the methodology for merging the list of registered voters and the

list of licensed drivers and identicard holders to form a jury source list pursuant to GR 18 and the

Supreme Court of Washington order to which this appendix is attached. Records of persons from

the list of licensed drivers and identicard holders shall not be used in creating a jury source list if

their license or identicard has been expired longer than 90 days. Records of persons from the

registered voter list shall not be used in creating a jury source list if they are in an inactive status.

Persons on the list of registered voters and on the list of licensed drivers and identicard

holders shall be identified based on the following data: date of birth, last name, first name,

middle initial, gender and county code to reflect residence address. Upon notification by the

Supreme Court of Washington of the legal availability of the Social Security number for jury

selection purposes, the persons on each list shall also be identified by Social Security number.

The list of registered voters and the list of licensed drivers and identicard holders shall be

merged to form a jury source list.

Using the identifying information on each person, known duplicate names shall be

eliminated during the merging process so that the jury source list shall contain, to the extent

reasonably possible, each prospective juror's name only once.

Conflicts of addresses shall be resolved by using the address most currently provided for

the lists from which the names originated.

If suspected duplication of names on the jury source list cannot be resolved after reasonable

efforts at the county level, the suspected duplicate names shall be stricken from that jury source

list.

Selection of persons for the master jury list from the jury source list, and the designation of

persons on the master jury list to be summoned, shall be random and totally without regard to

whether a person's name originally appeared on the list of registered voters, or on the list of

licensed drivers and identicard holders, or both.