System outages that may prevent you from submitting PDC reports are logged here.

Filing deadlines are extended for any unscheduled outage lasting 15 minutes or more, or any scheduled outage of 30 minutes or more.

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Filing system outage - -

The PDC experienced an outage this morning to all electronic filing systems, except lobbyist reporting, public agency lobbying reporting and last minute contributions. The outage was caused by a configuration change made by the Washington central IT services agency.

Planned outage: most filing activity and some website functions - -

The PDC’s IT team will be performing a database upgrade on Wednesday July 6, 2022 that will affect most filing activity and some website functionality. The planned outage is scheduled to begin at 5:30 a.m. and last for no more than two hours.

The outage will affect access to ORCA, Financial Affairs, Campaign Finance and C6 reporting.

Campaign finance and lobbyist reporting systems down - -

Due to a vendor outage, access to the PDC's Online Reporting of Campaign Activity, campaign registration and lobbying reporting systems was interrupted early this morning. The vendor reports it restored connection at 5:47 a.m. and is continuing to monitor for issues. 

Resolved: Filing system outage for C6, L5 and LMC - -

We currently have an outage for the C6, L5 and LMC applications, affecting filing of independent expenditure reports, filing by public agencies and filing reports of last-minute contributions. Additionally, the issue affects the viewing of the following: C6, L5 and LMC reports, and any C3/C4 reports which were filed prior to March 15, 2022.

UPDATE at 11:45 a.m. March 28: This issue, which was caused by WaTech network changes, has been resolved.

Lobbyist filing system outage - -

Between 7:45 and 8:15am the Lobbyist system was experiencing an outage during a routine software update.

Outage resolved - -

The Public Disclosure Commission systems outage that began about 9:15 a.m. today has ended. It affected filers' ability to use ORCA, F-1 and campaign registration systems.

Service provider issue blocking electronic filing - -

SAW issue blocking access to PDC systems - -

UPDATE: The issue has now been resolved.

A Secure Access Washington authentication issue is blocking access to the PDC's Financial Affairs (F-1), Campaign Registration (C-1 and C-1pc), and ORCA systems. We are investigating and will update as soon as we know more.

PDC phones "Out-of-Service" - -

All PDC phones were reporting as out-of-service because of maintenance being performed by the WaTech (the state centralized IT services organization). Service was restored on 7/18 before 5 PM.

Slow performance for ORCA submissions - -

The server that processes ORCA submissions experienced some performance issues that may have resulted in users submitting duplicate filings or receiving an error. Please contact the PDC at pdc@pdc.wa.gov if you believe you have duplicate reports so that we can work with you to delete the duplicate.