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Can mayor's proposal mend rift between Seattle and Washington's drug laws?

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a new proposal that not only aims to establish an illegal drug-use law, it endeavors to gain the City Council's approval.
- Dyer Oxley
Tri-Cities advocates fighting human trafficking work to slow crime during busiest summer weekend

As the Tri-Cities gears up for boat races – one of the biggest events of the year – local human trafficking advocates are gearing up to help. This is the first year that local resource centers are trying a new tactic.
- Courtney Flatt
Street racing cameras coming to 10 Seattle roads

Seattle is revving up to add cameras throughout the city to push back against street racing.
- Dyer Oxley
Seattle could do more to counter rise in sophisticated retail theft, report says

A Seattle City Auditor's report states that the city could "do more to tackle organized retail crime," such as using online video.
- Dyer Oxley
Washington crime rates rose in 2022, report says

Homicide and car theft rates are up in Washington, according to recent state data. But hate crimes went down slightly.
- Ruby de Luna
About the gun that killed a boy at Seattle’s Ingraham High School

This is the story of a gun. It begins with a 14-year-old boy showing it off. It ends with another boy dying in a high school hallway.
- Ashley Hiruko
7 graphics on kids and guns in the Seattle area

Sixty-eight kids died by gun between 2017 and 2022 in King County. That's like three classrooms wiped out.
- Ashley Hiruko
Finger-pointing and fallout in the wake of Seattle City Council drug law vote

City attorneys and municipal courts have been urgently preparing for the July 1, 2023 effective date of the state’s new drug possession law SB 5536. But law enforcement officials and prosecutors say they may not be able to enforce the law until mid-August.
- Amy Radil
Community court is ending in Seattle. What does that mean for defendants?

Community court will soon be a thing of the past in Seattle.
- Libby Denkmann
New Washington state laws give debt relief to people exiting prison

Starting this summer, people convicted of crimes in Washington will face fewer court-ordered fees. That’s thanks to the state’s third law in recent years aimed at easing the debt burden of “legal financial obligations,” or LFO’s, on people with criminal convictions.
- Amy Radil

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