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Failure to comply with a health officer's tuberculosis treatment orders is in fact a crime: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28.033 https://app.
by stonogo 3y ago
Failure to comply with a health officer's tuberculosis treatment orders is in fact a crime: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28.033 https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28.033
Detention, isolation, quarantine, and treatment are all subject to due process and overseen by the courts.
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- chasd00 3y agoThe law linked makes no mention of TB. That's a nice blank check for a "health officer" to jail anyone while they wait for the courts. Was it used during the COVID lockdowns?
- Jtsummers 3y agoIt doesn't mention TB itself because it references https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28.031 https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28.031 which is about TB. In fact both are sections of https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28 https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.28 titled "CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS".