One of Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson’s signature campaign promises was a $100 million proposal to help local police departments recruit officers. On Thursday, the incoming governor threw his support behind a bill to accomplish exactly that. Senate Bill 5060, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Holy, R-Cheney, would send $100 million to the ...
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Washington to get new hate crimes hotline next year
A new hotline to report hate crimes and bias incidents will start rolling out in Washington state in 2025. State Senator — and bill co-sponsor — Manka Dhingra says the non-emergency number will help victims to get connected to resources and start ...Read More
FOX26 Houston anchor, Rashi Vats, speaks with experts about the mental health crisis in America.
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Governor Jay Inslee recently signed a bill into law to help keep students safe in the event of traumatic injuries. The law, which was backed by students and surgeons, provides bleeding control kits in schools and encourages school staff to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help until first responders ...
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After this session of the Washington Legislature, though, the state will at least offer another form of assistance. Newly approved bipartisan legislation from Sen. Nikki Torres, R-Pasco, and Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, sets up internship programs for people interested in becoming public defenders or prosecutors in rural areas. If it works ...
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Washington state lawmakers have passed a bill that takes steps to prosecute more human trafficking cases and fix the state’s “Safe Harbor” law meant to protect child sex trafficking victims. In early March, Washington legislators unanimously passed Senate Bill 6006, which aims to increase prosecutions of human trafficking cases by expanding some ...
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In 2023, at the recommendation of the task force and request of Attorney General Ferguson, the Legislature established a Cold Case Investigations Unit to focus on solving cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and people. Rep. Lekanoff and Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, another task force member, championed the legislation. ...
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When Yvonne Hubbell was 16, she stabbed an 81-year-old man soliciting her for sex in self-defense. “He was trying to throw me around and punch me,” Hubbell said of the incident, which took place in 1997 in Kitsap County. “I remember him saying he was a Golden Glove boxer. I was ...
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Senate Bill 6246, sponsored by Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, would require a court to prohibit a person judged incompetent to stand trial from having the right to own a firearm, if that person is not committed to a facility for treatment. Democrats, with some GOP help, passed this in the ...
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The Washington state Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to make harassing election workers a felony, three months after four county election offices received envelopes containing suspicious powder — including three testing positive for fentanyl — and had to be evacuated. “This cannot be something we take as normal,” Democratic Sen. Manka Dhingra ...
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