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Terms of Use

These terms apply when you use Kennewick Residents Directory. By continuing, you agree to them. If you disagree, stop using the service.

1. The Nature of This Site

Kennewick Residents Directory is an independently operated reference to public rolls, indexes, and historical collections concerning Kennewick, Washington. No government data is hosted here, and the service has no affiliation with Benton County, a court, an agency, a library, or another custodian.


2. Rules for Using This Site

Use the site only for lawful purposes. You may not use it, or anything found through it, to:

  • Stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, or harm any person
  • Locate someone protected by a restraining or protective order
  • Commit identity theft or fraud
  • Make FCRA-regulated decisions (credit, employment, tenant, insurance)
  • Scrape, copy, or republish the site's content at scale
  • Interfere with the site's operation or security

3. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency

This site is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. ยง 1681 et seq.). Nothing here, and nothing any linked search tool returns, is a consumer report, and none of it may be used to judge eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, or any other FCRA-covered purpose.


4. Services Reached by Links

Government portals, libraries, and outside services, including sponsored tools, set their own terms and privacy rules. Their availability, charges, content, and data practices are beyond our control.


5. No Warranty

The service is offered "as is" and "as available" without a warranty of any kind. We cannot promise that content is complete, accurate, or current, or that an outside portal will remain available or produce a correct match.


6. Limits on Our Liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from use of this site or any linked resource, including decisions made from records found through it.


7. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the operators of this site from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your misuse of the site or violation of these terms.


8. Intellectual Property

The original text, design, logo, and layout of this site are protected by copyright. Linking to any page and quoting brief excerpts with attribution is welcome; republishing full pages or systematically copying content is not.


9. Revisions to These Terms

A revised version may be posted here. Continuing to use the service after publication signals acceptance of that revision.


10. Cutting Off Access

We may block or restrict any user who violates these terms or abuses the site, at our discretion and without notice.


11. Washington Law

Washington law governs these terms without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Public agency disclosure is addressed by the Washington Public Records Act, chapter 42.56 RCW, while court case files follow court rules rather than the ordinary agency request process.


12. Severability

If any part of these terms proves unenforceable, the rest stays in force.


13. Questions

Questions about these terms go through the Contact page.