through the same. 18 U.S.C. § 1151. ¶12 Through Public Law 280, Congress gave leeway to states, except those it required, to assume jurisdiction over Indian country. Pub. L. No. 83-280, 67 Stat. 588 (1953) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 1162; 25 U.S.C. §§ 1321, 1323, 1324); see Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of Yakima Indian Nation, 439 U.S. 463, 471-74, 99 S. Ct. 740, 58 L. Ed. 2d 740 (1979) (Yakima Indian Nation). Public Law 280 was later amended by Congress to require tribal consent to state jurisdiction in Indian country. See 25 U.S.C. §§ 1321, 1323. However, before then, Washington State assumed some criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian country. Laws of 1957, ch. 240, § 1, amended by Laws of 1963, ch. 36, § 1; see Yakima Indian Nation, 439 U.S. at 499, 502 (<HOLDING>). This case concerns Washington’s assumption of
holding that public policy must be evidenced by constitutional or statutory provisions holding that a childabuse report is not a public record and therefore is not subject to public inspection holding that police district attorney and judge are charged with knowledge of law particularly when dealing with constitutional rights recognizing that public utilities affect the public interest in that they render essential public services to a large number of the general public holding that rcw 3712010 complies with public law 280 and is constitutional