County Executive Dow Constantine secured $3.5 for the transfer, which the county Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention has said will only include mentally and physically “healthy” men accused of low-level crimes, in last year’s budget, but the furor over the decision didn’t begin in ...
“Today, the facility is holding 61 young people on charges including murder, manslaughter, rape, child molestation and other serious violent crimes,”Claudia Balducci, Law and Justice Committee vice chair and former director of theKing County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention, said in a ...
Theresolution, originally proposed by Republican Councilmember Reagan Dunn, says, “It is the intent of the King County Council to maintain operations of the juvenile secure detention facility at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center.” During the summer of 2020, King Cou...