Use of City Facilities to Broadcast Candidate Forum

A city is not prohibited by RCW 42.17A.555 (formerly RCW 42.17.130) from organizing and broadcasting a candidate forum where the purpose of the forum is to educate voters about the candidates for office, each candidate is provided an equal opportunity to participate, and the forum is presented in a fashion that is unbiased and nondiscriminatory with regard to all candidates.  [Declaratory Order No. 13, issued October 24, 1995]