A bill that would have lowered the legal limit on blood alcohol concentration from .08 to .05.
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Authority to Lie?
House Bill 1062 aims to make defendant’s statements inadmissible in court if police use deceptive tactics during interrogations to get those statements.
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Is HB1994 Viable?
House Bill 1994, if passed, would permit judges to set conditions in lower-level cases (like minor drug possession and criminal tresspass) that won’t include jail ...
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Should they or Shouldn’t they?
Should officers be permitted to review body camera footage before writing their reports and/or making statements to investigators?
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Body Cams in Kitsap County?
On December 4, 2023, The Kitsap County Board of Commissioners - like so many other Washington governmental bodies - approved a contract authorizing the Kitsap ...
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What is Legislative Privilege and When Does it Apply?
Ruling essentially allows the government to decide what information they are going to give to the public and what information they are not going to ...
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Will SPD be Held Accountable?
The officers apparently elected to enter the home because they were convinced that there was a report of someone attempting to jump or push someone ...
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A Rush to Judgement by Law Enforcement?
tackling and arrest of a health care worker during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic.
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SPD Ruses Under the Spot Light?
Seattle police are now officially prohibited from deliberately misinforming (in certain circumstances) a citizen by way of a ruse in the hopes of developing proof ...
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What Will be the Impact of New Public Use Ordinance?
Seattle law enforcement personnel started enforcing the new public drug use ordinance
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