The Washington State Liquor Control Board announced today that a number of applicants have received a solicitation from a company about an impending universal February deadline for applicants to “get set up” and that the WSLCB will “no longer wait for your plan to come together.”

The WSLCB said in a release on its listserv email that this has caused some alarm among applicants and led to calls to the Liquor Control Board.

“Those claims are not true,” the release stated.

While some individual applicants may be facing deadlines in February, according to WSLCB, those are not universal to every applicant. Any changes to the status of an individual application will be conveyed to the applicant by their investigator and universal changes regarding the implementation of I-502 will be communicated via official WSLCB channels. Applicants should be skeptical about any mass communications claiming to have inside information and treat them as hearsay or rumor until they speak with their WSLCB representative.