Telford v. Thurston County Board of Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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• concluding an organization was subject to government control where an association was “completely controlled by elected and appointment county officials,” despite lacking any “outside government control.”
• considering participation in public retirement system and insurance fund as evidence of public funding
• explaining membership dues allocated directly from current county expense funds are a “block of public funds . . . diverted en masse” and so public should have access to records of how funds were spent
• WACO’s function is the “statewide coordination of county administrative programs, declared by the Legislature to be a public purpose.”
• Associations of counties and county officials were performing core government functions where they existed pursuant to enabling legislation which declared the coordination of county administrative programs to be a public purpose.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).