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The body that licenses police officers in Washington state has decided to apply a new police accountability law to past misconduct, instead of only to officer misconduct that occurred after the law took effect last July. The vote by the state Criminal Justice Training Commission resolves a dispute between lawmakers and ...

The city of Woodinville recently secured $5 million in state funding to begin designing and constructing the SR 202 Capacity and Safety Improvement Project. “The trestle funding was successful due to years of work from staff, current and former council members, our lobbyist and the wonderful advocacy of the 45th delegation—especially ...

Sen. Manka Dhingra has called for a joint session to address the practice, which splits up families and costs taxpayers millions. As schools in Washington continue to ship students with disabilities to other communities, state lawmakers say they plan to find a way to keep kids closer to home. Sen. Manka Dhingra, ...

OLYMPIA - Wash. House and Senate Republicans are expressing frustration with a growing partisan legislature, which they say they witnessed during the recent state legislative session. Washington is a Democrat-majority state with Republicans often have a hard time standing in the way of Democrat-sponsored legislation. Republican legislators are complaining that Democrats ...

As soon as the governor signs off on it, Washington will set up a new alert system for missing and endangered Indigenous people. The alert system, which will be the first of its kind in the nation, will be similar to existing Amber alerts or silver alerts. When activated, information about ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (KOMO) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday signed into law what he calls improvements to police reform laws passed last year after hearing repeatedly from law enforcement agencies about what they said was confusion over what officers could and could not do in the wake ...

OLYMPIA – Carrying guns and other weapons could soon become prohibited in Washington at schools, local government meetings and election-related facilities. The state Senate passed a bill 28-20 on Tuesday that bans open carry and concealed carry in a number of different settings. It will head back to the House of Representatives, ...

The state legislature is considering a bill, sponsored by State Senator Manka Dhingra (D-Seattle), that would expand where courthouse facility dogs can go, helping traumatized witnesses who testify in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. If passed, the bill (SB 5127) would allow certified dogs to travel on public transportation to ...

School closures, remote work, isolation. Inflation, wildfires, a heat wave. It’s all adding up: Washingtonians’ mental well-being has been profoundly disrupted since the pandemic landed here two years ago. And just when normalcy seemed near, omicron arrived. This legislative session, lawmakers are faced with tackling a mental health system fraying at ...

Outrage at Derek Chauvin was apparent from the moment video surfaced of his knee pressed into George Floyd's neck for 9 ½ minutes.

Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murder in April, became the face of intolerance, injustice and police brutality, his ...