Category Archives: In the News

From King 5 News A bill to make it easier to get someone mental health treatment, against their will, has the support of Jerri Clark. The Vancouver, Washington mother said current law made it hard to get help for her ...

From the AP Voting restrictions for people with felony convictions will remain unchanged after the Washington state Senate rejected a bill that would have restored their voting rights. Currently, felons lose their voting rights after they are convicted and regain ...

From the Sequim Gazette The Washington Legislature is closer to creating an Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention to collect data on gun violence and suicide following a 25-23 vote in favor of Senate Bill 6288. The office created ...

From the Seattle Times The first step to reducing gun violence is understanding it — and its causes. Lawmakers should support potentially lifesaving research by passing SB 6288. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, would establish a state office to ...

From the Spokesman-Review Washington could get a new state agency dedicated to reducing gun violence and improving safety under a bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday. And that wasn’t the only gun-related bill to move forward in the Legislature: ...

From The Seattle Times OLYMPIA — In Washington, victims of sexual assault continue to be turned away from hospitals that don’t have specially trained nurses who can administer rape kits — a problem contributing to what state officials are calling a ...

From The Seattle Times For nearly two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was effectively barred from conducting research on gun violence, making nationwide data difficult to gather, and forcing local governments or smaller research organizations to pick ...

From the AP Democratic state lawmakers are pushing to create an office on firearm-violence prevention in order to improve data sources, collection methods and sharing mechanisms statewide. The Seattle Times reports that Senate Bill 6288 would also help fund local ...

From The Peninsula Daily News Proposals moving through the Legislature would expand the eligibility of incarcerated people to receive treatment for substance abuse in lieu of, or concurrently with, prison sentences. Senate Bill 6211 was heard by the Law and ...

From The Seattle Times Lawmakers have backed down from their proposal to ban flavored vape products and address the epidemic of youth vaping and nicotine addiction. Originally, Senate Bill 6254, introduced at the request of Gov. Jay Inslee, would have made ...