AUniversity of Washingtonstudy of Seattle public transit in response to concerns about potential health risks to operators and riders found methamphetamine and fentanyl use is rampant on the city’s trains and buses but transit agencies say the results show it is safe to ride with “drug levels ...
Seattle City Councilpublic safety chairBob Kettlehas more than street disorder and public drug use on his mind. The council member representing downtown, Magnolia, and Queen Anne also wants to protect you from your neighborhood coyotes. “Like many of you, I have personally dealt with menacing ...
a process in which cases are sent directly to the city attorney’s office) for violations of the law peaked in December at 86, and declined to 20 in March.Continue reading“Six Months In, Seattle’s New Drug Law Has Had Little Direct Impact on Public Drug Use or Diversion”→ ...
When I was running for Congress, one of the people that came to help the campaign had spent a lot of time in some of the worst parts of Los Angeles. He told me about the public drug use, the constant crime and the human degradation that is seemingly everywhere. This greatly saddened m...
In Washington, the Bellevue, Evergreen, Everett, Lake Washington and Puyallup school districts also use the curriculum. New York City Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District and Philadelphia Public Schools also recently added it. The curriculum aims to help students develop a deep ...
Seattle's LEAD program (short forLaw Enforcement Assisted Diversion) is decriminalizing the use of even hard drugs and relying on public health solutions. The program began as a pilot in 2011. At first it was only used in the city's downtown, partly to stem the spread of open-air drug...
Perdue T, Hagan H, Thiede H, Valleroy L: Depression and HIV risk behavior among Seattle-area injection drug users and young men who have sex with men. AIDS Education And Prevention: Official Publication Of The International Society For AIDS Education 2003, 15:81-92....
Growing Seattle encampment unmoved despite public drug use, safety concerns A growing encampment on a Seattle thoroughfare will not be removed by the city anytime soon, despite admissions from residents of fentanyl use. a year agoFormer Redmond hotel to open as supportive housing for chronically ...
Restaurant owner Olga Sagan told The Seattle Times that she closes her bakery at 3 p.m. now due to rampant street crime, including break-ins, graffiti, public drug use, harassment and litter. “I don’t want my employees here or leaving here after dark,” Sagan said, adding that ...
She has spent her term advocating for the right to prosecute people who use drugs in public, crack down on sex workers, and banish people who commit drug and sex work misdemeanors from parts of the city.Under Davison, the city shut down community court, which provided an alternative to ...