Last week the Seattle city council amended a few safety bills to further tamp down acts of nuisance. The bills are meant to address public safety concerns in-and-around the City of Seattle. The chronic nuisance property ordinance is aimed at addressing consistent and continuing criminal behaviors. Chronic nuisance happens when police document at least three nuisance activities with 60 days or at least seven incidents in 12 months. The ordinance is geared towards shuttering several offending motels, nightclubs, private homes, apartment buildings and commercial event spaces. The other public safety ordinance passed deals with graffiti. The bill imposes a $1500 fine per graffiti tagging. That is in addition to criminal charges, misdemeanor or felony depending on the facts of each individual case. Time will tell if these modifications to Seattle’s effort to limit unlawful nuisance have a prohibitive effect.
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