Truancy cases
Once a truancy petition is filed, the student and family may receive notice of a school or district community engagement board or other interventions including an Unleash the Brilliance Education Reengagement Workshop or a Community Attendance Support Team Meeting.
Follow the status of your case
Contact the school district in which your child is enrolled and ask for the Truancy or Attendance Secretary.
Find contact information for your school district (285KB)
(PDF) King County Truancy/Education Reengagement Liaisons
2024-2025 School Year
KNT for the south end of the county including:
- Auburn
- Enumclaw
- Federal Way
- Highline
- Kent
- Renton
- Tacoma
- Tukwila
SEA for the east and northern end of the county including:
- Bellevue
- Issaquah
- Lake Washington
- Mercer Island
- Northshore
- Riverview
- Seattle
- Shoreline
- Skykomish
- Snoqualmie Valley
- Vashon
A case number is automatically assigned at the time of filing, and a year-long case schedule is automatically generated with an expiration date 1 year from the time of filing.
If absences continue
If continued interventions are unsuccessful in reducing or eliminating further unexcused absences after a truancy has been filed, the Court may issue an order for the school district, student, and/or parent to appear for a Pretrial Conference. If no agreement can be reached on a plan to address barriers to attendance, the Court may order a Preliminary Truancy Hearing.
At the Preliminary Hearing, the Court may take jurisdiction over the matter.
Truancy forms
- Becca Release of Information (ROI)
- Business Records Declaration (257KB)
- Certification of Mailing (13KB)
- Cover Sheet for Clerk's Office (30KB)
- Declaration of Service Processor (30KB)
- Motion and Order on Truancy Dismissal (115KB)
- Motion and Order on Truancy Continuance or Strike (153KB)
- Motion and Order to Extend Truancy Case Schedule (30KB)
- Motion for Court Action - Preliminary Hearing (182KB)
- Motion for Court Action - Review Hearing (144KB)
- Motion to Set Show Cause Hearing - Contempt (119KB)
- Parent/Student Community Attendance Support Team Referral (202KB)
- Request for a Preliminary Pretrial Conference (99KB)
- Truancy Progress Report (114KB)
- Truancy Petition (206KB)
- Agreed Motion Order on Transfer of Truancy Jurisdiction
- How to E-File for Truancy
- Truancy Court Guidelines
- King County Truancy Process