STATE OF WASHINGTON
ETHICS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
OPINION 92-8

Question
     May a judge participate in an annual fund raising event for an
organization which is active in recreating crimes and having those
recreations aired by the media by purchasing a ticket and attending a
formal dinner and dance at the local jail facility?

Answer
     CJC Canon 5(B) provides in part that judicial officers may participate
in extrajudicial activities that do not reflect adversely upon their
impartiality and permits them to attend some fund raising events provided
they are not a speaker or a guest of honor.
  Because of the nature of this organization a judicial officer should not
attend its fund raising events as such an appearance would reflect
adversely upon the judicial officer's impartiality.

See Amended Opinion 91-28.