A federal US appeals court on Friday held that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) violated US immigration law. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision to block the DACA program, finding it to be unlawfully created. The court emphasized that since Congress had deliberately excluded DACA recipients from […]

Office of Police Accountability (OPA) Director Gino Betts resigned last week as head of the city’s police watchdog department following an unrelenting anti-Betts campaign from the Seattle Police Union, Interim Chief of Police Sue Rahr, and certain right-wing radio hosts. For those who don’t know, almost anyone you’ve ever read about in Bad Apples, Betts investigated and recommended […]

With overcrowding at Washington’s two juvenile detention centers, the Department of Children, Youth and Families is asking state lawmakers for money to open a new facility.  The department wants to add a smaller, minimum and medium security site to help alleviate pressure on the other two centers, which had to pause admissions earlier this year because […]