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 Majority Leader Andy Billig, D-Spokane.
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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 reviewing key aspects of the case such as witnesses and evidence, ...
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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 state Sen. Manka Dhingra, the bill's prime sponsor. Dhingra, a ...Read More
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 no body to bury. Her remains were recovered over 30 years after ...
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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 study, hygiene and personal care products such as ...
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For months before the start of the state legislative session, a oft-stated priority for law enforcement agencies and local public officials have been changes to a 2021 law — among a slate of policing reforms adopted that year — that limits when and how police can engage in pursuits of ...
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A bill introduced by Democrats in Washington’s state legislature would prevent private health data that is collected by apps – particularly those that track menstrual cycles – from being shared without consumers’ consent.
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Social media lit up with an ominous warning last year, after the Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to an abortion: Stop using period tracking apps. That’s because health information people provide to period tracking apps and other health sites are not protected by federal privacy laws like HIPAA.
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