Local law-enforcement agencies to receive funding to expand storage of sexual-assault kits
More than a dozen Seattle-area police departments will receive funding for cold-storage units to preserve evidence of sexual assaults, according to Attorney General Bob Ferguson. “More storage means more evidence can be tested, and more crimes can be solved,” Ferguson said in a news release announcing the funding. “These resources will bring justice to survivors.” Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Steve Ringman)
A foster system paradox: Parents billed for care of their children
In the vast majority of cases where children are removed from their homes and taken into foster care, family poverty is a big factor. It could be a refrigerator without food or an apartment without electricity. Yet for nearly four decades, parents struggling with this level of need have been billed for their children’s care and obligated to pay the state — even when they have no income. Continue reading at Crosscut. (Grant Hindsley)
Tuesday marks 8 years since 43 killed in Oso landslide
Tuesday marks eight years since the Oso landslide was triggered in Snohomish County. At 10:37 a.m. on March 22, 2014, the once forested hillside above Oso collapsed without warning in a massive landslide, destroying the Steelhead neighborhood and killing 43 people. Dozens of homes were wiped out when mud, rocks, trees and debris roared down a hillside above the north fork of the Stillaguamish River. Continue reading at KIRO 7.
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