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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.
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.
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.
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.
Between 7:45 and 8:15am the Lobbyist system was experiencing an outage during a routine software update.
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.
A problem with Secure Access Washington's authentication service is causing outages for users of ORCA, campaign registration and the F-1 financial affairs filing systems. The problem has been reported to SAW. The PDC does not yet have an estimate for restoration of service.
UPDATE: The outage has been resolved. Please notify pdc@pdc.wa.gov if you continue to have problems accessing the website or filing reports.
Original post: Beginning at about 2 p.m. the Public Disclosure Commission was experiencing an outage that may affect filers' ability to use ORCA and other systems.
Due to an issue with third-party cloud services, some users of the Financial Affairs (F-1) system, campaign registration and Online Reporting of Campaign Activity (ORCA) may have experienced connectivity issues or outages between 10 p.m. June 7 and 4 a.m. June 8. The issue has been resolved and all systems are operating as expected.