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(The Center Square) – King County Executive Director Girmay Zahilay on Thursday signed an executive order prohibiting federal immigration authorities from accessing non-public, county-owned or controlled spaces. The executive order also allocates $2 million to bolster protections for immigrant and refugee communities. Other provisions of the executive order include: Directing the King County Sheriff’s Office to provide publicly available protocols for responding to 911 calls reporting immigration enforcement.Directing all King County departments to support Know
(The Center Square) – Among the bills advancing in the Washington legislature is a measure that would give Sound Transit the ability to issue bonds with 75-year maturities. Senate bill 6148 initially asked for the extended bond bill last year, but it did not advance. Since then, the transit agency revealed its light rail plan is tens of billions of dollars over budget, and ST admits its 2016 presentation to voters for a 25-year plan
(The Center Square) – House Democrats passed a proposal Wednesday that would expand Washington state’s “Good Samaritan” law by prohibiting the arrest of someone who is overdosing or reporting one. The 55-42 vote, with three Democrats joining every Republican in opposition, marked the second time that the chamber has passed House Bill 1574. The proposal stalled just before hitting the Senate floor at the end of the 2025 legislative session as the majority grappled with
(The Center Square) – The Washington state Senate has passed a bill that critics in the chamber warn could “weaponize” the State Attorney General’s Office by giving it new investigative powers into civil infractions, with potential criminal penalties for failure to comply and a gag order on the person subject to it. “It allows for the potential to weaponize the state agency, should somebody actually have an agenda,” Sen. Jeff Holy, R-Cheney told colleagues on
