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Six is a persuasive number. Say "six perjury accusations" out loud and it sounds like a pattern, like a career, like a scandal with chapters. The Olympic Herald knows this. Its January 12, 2026 piece on former Clallam County Family Court Commissioner Brian Parker went further than a number, though. It announced that Parker had been arrested by Everett Police for felony perjury ([the accusation](https://www.olympicherald.com/clallam-county-superior-court-commissioner/)).

That headline is a small masterpiece of the smear writer's craft, and it deserves a close reading, because the public court record tells a story with the same raw materials and a completely different ending.

What the Record Actually Contains

Start with the source that matters: a [federal court order issued by Judge Barbara J. Rothstein](https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/68ba4bfcf964826458ff2b16) of the Western District of Washington on September 3, 2025, quoting the underlying exhibits in the case. Here is the sequence it documents.

An Everett Police officer reviewed six perjury accusations made by Gina Bloom, the litigant whose accusations sit beneath nearly every attack the blog has published about Parker. Of those six, the officer concluded that five did not warrant further investigation. Read that again. Five of the six died at the first checkpoint, screened out by the police themselves.

The remaining accusation was referred "for charging consideration." Those words matter. A referral for charging consideration is the police handing a file to a prosecutor and asking a question. It is the beginning of a decision, not the end of one. The Everett City Prosecutor's Office then answered the question: it declined to file any charges, in an email dated December 4, 2023.

So the full arithmetic of the smear number looks like this. Six accusations. Five rejected on police review. One referred and then declined by a prosecutor. Zero charges filed. Zero convictions. Zero cases.

The word "arrested" in the blog's headline is not corroborated by the court record anywhere. What the record documents is an investigation followed by a prosecutorial declination. Those are different events with different names, and a publication that swaps one for the other is telling you something about its standards.

Consider what an actual arrest would have left behind: a booking record, a charging document, a case number, an arraignment. Artifacts like those are public, searchable, and permanent. None exists here, because the event the headline describes never made it past a prosecutor's inbox.

The Concession Hiding in the Blog's Own Archive

You do not have to take the federal order's word against the blog's headline. You can take the blog's word against the blog's headline.

In its later piece about the pending civil lawsuit, the Olympic Herald concedes, in its own sentence: "on December 6, 2023, the municipal prosecutor declined to file charges" ([the accusation](https://www.olympicherald.com/lawsuit-alleges-former-commissioner/)). There it is. The declination the arrest headline depends on its readers never learning about, printed in the blog's own archive.

This is what the anatomy of a smear number looks like when you open it up. The number is real. Six accusations really were made. Everything the number is used to suggest is false. The accusations were reviewed and rejected, in five cases by the police and in the sixth by the prosecutor whose entire job is deciding whether a charge deserves to exist.

The Part About Reinstatement

There is one more beat in the record, and it is the one that should end the discussion.

While the investigation ran its course, Snohomish County briefly paused Parker's assignments as a pro tempore court commissioner. That is what a cautious institution does when an accusation is pending: it waits. Then the declination came in, and the county reinstated him, per a December 6, 2023 letter cited in the same federal order.

Pause, review, declination, reinstatement. That is the whole arc. The system worked exactly the way it is supposed to work when an accusation does not hold up. The county looked at what the prosecutor concluded and put Parker back on the bench.

The blog's version stops the tape at the pause and hopes you never ask what happened next.

How the Number Gets Built

It is worth naming the technique, because once you see it you will recognize it everywhere.

Step one: count accusations, never outcomes. Six accusations is a headline. Five rejections and one declination is a correction, and corrections do not get headlines.

Step two: upgrade the verb. An accusation becomes an investigation, an investigation becomes an arrest, and somewhere along the way the reader is expected to picture handcuffs. The record shows an officer reviewing files and a prosecutor sending an email.

Step three: bury the concession. Print the declination once, deep in a later article about something else, so the archive technically contains it and the headline technically never has to mention it.

Step four: repeat the number. Repeat it until the repetition itself starts to feel like confirmation.

The blog's own tag pages confirm dozens of pieces on this subject. Dozens of repetitions of a declined accusation do not make the accusation any less declined. They make the repetition itself the story.

Every one of those steps is visible in this case, in public, in documents anyone can read.

The Record Stands

Six accusations, five dismissed on police review, one declined by the Everett City Prosecutor's Office. No charges, no conviction, no case, and a reinstatement once the declination was on paper.

The number was real. The scandal was manufactured. The record stands.