Category Archives: In the News

OLYMPIA, WA – Twenty percent of all murders in Washington State are the result of domestic violence. A quarter of rapes and more than half of simple assaults are as well. Washington State legislators held a press conference today at ...

Police could call judges at a domestic violence crime scene to issue no-contact orders, and a cold case unit would be formed to examine cold cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women under several bills under consideration by Washington legislators. ...

The Redmond Police Department implemented new GPS technology last month that has helped result in three arrests. The technology, called StarChase, uses a high-powered air compressor mounted on a police car to fire a GPS tracker at the fleeing vehicle. ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Lawmakers and advocates say Washington is not doing enough when it comes to protecting domestic violence and funding life-saving services. In a press conference Tuesday, they urged for more state legislation to help stop the violence. There ...

OLYMPIA – The Legislature is moving forward with a proposal to fix the state’s drug possession laws after a Senate panel on Thursday approved a bill with a larger focus on treating addiction . The bill has 15 co-sponsors, including Senate ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Large businesses operating in Washington state would be required to disclose efforts to eradicate human trafficking within their supply chains under a proposed Senate bill. SB 5541 would require every seller and manufacturer with more than $75 million ...

Proposed legislation in the Washington State legislature would create a cold-case investigations unit through the Attorney General’s Office for missing and murdered Indigenous women and people. Cold case units or squads are responsible for working unsolved homicides which may include ...

Washington could stop businesses from pricing products differently simply because of the gender they’re marketed to — like those pink razors that are basically the same as their blue counterparts but cost more. That’s what Senate Bill 5171 would do, says ...

OLYMPIA — Earlier this month, Charlene Tillequots attended a funeral service for her close childhood friend for the second time. The first service was decades ago. At the time, the friend had been missing for seven years and there was ...

A group of Kirkland high school students say it’s time for Washington to join New York and California in making gender based pricing illegal. Gender-based pricing costs women approximately $2,300 per year on average. According to a New York Consumer Affairs ...