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King County judge finds state agency in contempt for keeping teen in adult jail

A King County Superior Court judge held the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in contempt of court Friday for failing to transfer an 18-year-old convicted of robbery to a state juvenile rehabilitation facility.
Ann Dornfeld
Garfield County pledges to keep jail shuttered after suicide went undetected

Family members of a man whose suicide went undiscovered in Garfield County jail for 18 hours have settled their claim, in an agreement approved by a superior court judge on Monday. Kyle Lara’s parents say the most important part of the agreement has already occurred: the closure of the jail where he died.
Amy Radil
No juveniles in adult prisons, Washington court orders

A Thurston County Superior Court judge told the state it has two weeks to return 43 young men it suddenly moved last Friday from the Green Hill School juvenile rehabilitation center to an adult prison in Shelton unless it can convince the court that the emergency move was necessary to reduce dangerous overcrowding.
Ann Dornfeld
Sex abuse survivors ask Vatican to investigate Seattle Archdiocese as Washington's lawsuit fails

On Friday, officials at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., and in Rome received a letter from Seattle area survivors of child sexual abuse and their advocates. They’re asking top officials to investigate leadership at the Archdiocese of Seattle for allegedly failing to comply with the Washington State Attorney General’s investigation into the sexual abuse allegations against its clergy members.
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Home Depot fined $1.6M for selling banned super-pollutant in Washington

Washington state has fined Home Depot $1.6 million for selling canisters of a banned substance that harms the climate.
John Ryan
Mysterious posters in courthouse garage could have jeopardized Auburn police killing case, judge says

The case of the first police officer charged under a new state standard for misuse of deadly force is now before a jury in King County Superior Court. Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson faces charges of second-degree murder and first-degree assault for twice shooting Jesse Sarey on May 31, 2019.
Amy Radil
Week in Review: Timothy Rankin, Tanya Woo, and OSPI

Guest host Mike Lewis discusses the week’s news with The Needling’s Lex Vaughn, Republican strategist Randy Pepple, and Seattle Times columnist Claudia Rowe.
Kevin Kniestedt
Former Shoreline assisted living caregiver charged with raping two residents with Alzheimer’s

The two elderly women had Alzheimer’s and significant cognitive impairment – but were both able to tell their families about the male employee who had raped them at the Aegis Living Center in Shoreline where they lived.
Amy Radil
Auburn officer's trial tests deadly force law

The murder trial against Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson is underway in Kent today. Arguments are centering around the officer’s training and the testimony of some key witnesses. It’s an important test of a voter initiative that made it easier to prosecute police officers who use deadly force. KUOW’s crime and law enforcement reporter Amy Radil will bring us up to speed on the case.
Patricia Murphy

Jennie Cecil Moore
In Burien, 'the soap opera continues' as quarrels grow over city's camping ban

Each day in Burien seems to bring a new uproar between city officials and the King County Sheriff’s Office over the city’s camping ban. Meanwhile, people await an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether camping bans violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment when they don’t come with offers of available shelter.
Amy Radil

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