Category Archives: In the News

Washington lawmakers are looking at requiring assisted living facilities to be certified to take care of people with dementia. Senate Bill 5337, sponsored by Sen. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, would require the Department of Social and Health Services to create, ...

When the 988 crisis hotline launched in 2022, it was a bid to give people across the country a single easy-to-remember phone number, like 911, that they could call if they were suicidal or needed mental health help. Since then, ...

The Metropolitan King County Council unanimously chose state Rep. Tina Orwall to be the newest state senator in South King County, replacing Sen. Karen Keiser who is retiring in the middle of her term. Orwall will make the jump from ...

Before sexually explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift circulated on the internet in late January, Issaquah High School students already had fallen victim to nude photos digitally altered by artificial intelligence. During Caroline Mullet’s first homecoming dance in September 2023, a ninth-grade ...

Washington state has effectively eliminated its extensive backlog of untested sexual assault evidence kits. Officials announced Thursday that more than 10,000 backlogged kits have now been cleared from evidence rooms across the state and submitted for testing.

As a sexual assault survivor, Leah Griffin has spent years working to reform the public policies that she says repeatedly undercut her attempts to seek justice and heal. After the 2014 assault, she got turned away from a hospital, waited ...

People experiencing a mental health crisis anywhere in the country will soon be able to call or text message a three-digit number — 988 — and be connected to an emergency helpline akin to 911.

A new law, authored by State Rep. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, will help close equity gaps in Washington’s public and charter schools by establishing a language access program with interpreters to improve family engagement within the state’s education system.