Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Washington

Re: tenents rights

As usual, it depends. There is not a specific statute that requires your landlord to protect your privacy. Even a hospital can disclose the name of a patient who is in the hospital, just not any further information regarding the patient.

It depends on whether you are damaged by your landlord's disclosure of information, and whether you can prove that the damage you sustained was proximately caused by your landlord's disclosure.

That could be proven if you were, for example, a victim of domestic violence and your abuser came looking for you and your landlord shared information regarding your whereabouts which enabled your abuser to locate you and harm you.

In that case, your remedy would be to give notice to your landlord that you would be moving immediately to avoid your abuser.

There is a statute in the RLTA that provides you may break a lease under those circumstances.

But this is a hypothetical answer, because you don't say what facts your landlord disclosed, and to whom.

Your recourse, really, is to give the correct notice and move out. Why reward a landlord financially for mistreating you? There are decent landlords out there, who understand about the basic concept of privacy. Go rent from one of them, not this one!

Hope this helps. Powell