The Seattle City Council has added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia to specifically ban caste discrimination.
TheSeattle City Councilwill begin the legislative process Tuesday afternoon to change the way hate crimes are prosecuted in the city. CB 119288would remove Seattle’s malicious harassment crime, the city’s current hate crime statute, and replace it with a “special allegation of hate crime motiva...
The new 12-member board will include the King County Executive, the Seattle Mayor, two members of the King County Council, one representing a district in Seattle and one representing a district outside of Seattle, two members of the Seattle City Council, three elected officials from the Sound ...
Under the most recent one (1946), the city is governed by a mayor, who is elected to a four-year term, and a nine-member city council, whose members are elected to four-year terms through citywide elections held in odd-numbered years. The council is governed by a president—chosen ...
SEATTLE (AP) — A controversial socialist City Councilmember in Seattle appears to have survived a recall vote by a narrow margin after facing criticism for pushing cuts the police budget and higher taxes on hometown tech giant Amazon.
City Council,Courts,Drugs,Health,PoliceApril 12, 2024 Six Months In, Seattle’s New Drug Law Has Had Little Direct Impact on Public Drug Use or Diversion After police cracked down on people hanging out and using drugs at the corner of 12th and Jackson, they moved a block away. Photo: An...
Neither Socialist Alternative, whose former member Kshama Sawant was a Seattle City Council member until the end of 2023, nor the Seattle chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has posted anything on their official websites opposing the proposed school closures. This is only fitting due ...
durkan said during a budget briefing meeting. a line item in for the mayor's 2021 budget includes restoration of several city outreach worker jobs but did not say if they will be members of a similar sort of team. “between now and the end of the year, (the) council has mad...
Lipscomb worked at Microsoft from 1983 to 1994 and has lived in Bellevue for nearly 40 years. She said she decided to run for City Council because she thinks the city “hasn’t been bold enough in its actions and solutions,” especially surrounding affordable housing, cl...
*There will not be primary elections in King County Council Districts 2 and 6. Continue reading“Seattle Subway Primary Endorsements 2023” A win-win for the CID dilemma: Stick with current tunnel Posted on March 18, 2023 by Martin Pagel The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel bends towards the...