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Ambitious New Plan Says King County Needs to Spend Billions
WebA downtown encampment mid-sweep. By Erica C. Barnett. When King County and the city of Seattle established the King County Regional Homelessness Authority in 2019, the two governments signed an agreement that required the new agency to adopt a five-year implementation plan that would include, at a minimum, “strategies to …
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Seattle's Newest Department Aims to Change the City's
WebOne of the first chances for dispatchers to play a larger role in the crisis response system could come with the eventual launch of a program tentatively known as “Triage One,” a team of civilian responders who the 911 center could dispatch in lieu of police to respond to low-acuity, non-medical crisis calls. The Triage One proposal is …
Can King County's "Health Through Housing" Plan Make a
WebBuilding permanent housing, Constantine noted Monday, costs about $400,000 a unit, compared to around $115,000 a room for the hotel the county announced Monday. But even 1,600 new hotel rooms may be enough, in combination with 1,300 new housing vouchers and the 500-cubicle enhanced shelter that opened earlier this year in …
Fatal SPD Shooting Highlights Debate About Responses to
WebSPD, like police departments around the state, is gradually beginning to delegate some mental health crisis responses to mental health professionals. But mental health crisis calls involving a person carrying a weapon are still a sticking point in the debate about which duties should be shifted police officers to mental health specialists.
SPD's Community Service Officer is Poised to Grow, But the
WebSPD Community Service Officer Kevin Hendrix and sworn officer Hosea Crumpton; image via SPD Facebook. By Paul Kiefer. The re-launch of the Seattle Police Department’s Community Service Officer (CSO) unit at the end of 2019 was quickly overshadowed by a global pandemic. In the two years since, the unarmed civilian team …
Fizz: As Homeless Authority Regroups, City's Homelessness
Web2. Helen Howell, the interim director of the Seattle Human Services Department, was among those urging the board to act quickly to appoint a new interim or permanent director, in part because HSD’s own Homelessness Strategy and Investment Division of HSD has been hemorrhaging staff for more than a year and is nearly at the …
By Opting Out, Suburban Cities Could Blow an $8 Million
WebImage via King County. By Erica C. Barnett. At least half a dozen cities have chosen to opt out of a proposed countywide “Health Through Housing” sales tax increase that would provide permanent supportive housing for an estimated 2,000 chronically homeless people.. The cities, which include Renton, Issaquah, Kent, and Covington, will …
Seattle Was Supposed to Create Alternatives to Police for
WebMeanwhile, another new fire department unit called Triage One, which would have responded to “person-down” calls and other low-acuity issues, never got off the ground.. Lewis, a longtime advocate for a CAHOOTS-style mental health responder model, has recently suggested that the city could shift some police responsibilities, such as …
Former KCRHA Director's New $250-an-Hour Contract Focuses On …
WebFormer KCRHA director Marc Dones at the “Partnership for Zero” announcement last year. By Erica C. Barnett. The Seattle Human Services Department released the details of former King County Regional Homelessness Authority director Marc Dones’ $250-an-hour contract with the city on Friday.
Private Donations Will Fund "Peer Navigators," Launch Plan to
WebSubsequent phases of the plan will include the creation of a “by-name list” of people experiencing homelessness downtown; a “draw down” period in which peer navigators, having “establish[ed] the trust needed to help people move from homeless to housed,” relocate the entire downtown homeless population to shelter and services; and …
Mercer Island Plans Homeless Ban, Shakeup at Homelessness …
WebImage via Wikimedia Commons. 1. On Tuesday, the Mercer Island City Council is scheduled to vote on a proposal to ban all “camping” in the city, including sleeping unsheltered in public places and sheltering in a vehicle overnight. People who violate the ban—anyone who remains unsheltered in the city overnight—could be jailed for up to 90 …
Fizz: Burgess Previews Encampment Initiative, Nguyen Mulls
Web1. At a meeting of the Queen Anne Initiative on Community Engagement last week, former city council member Tim Burgess outlined the contours of an initiative that will be filed in the coming weeks that would fund new homeless services with existing city dollars and effectively reinstate the city’s Navigation Team, which removed encampments from …
Appeals Court Rules State Must Pay When People With
WebA “rubber room” at the Snohomish County Jail in 2013, used to hold people with serious mental illnesses in isolation. By Paul Kiefer. The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) won’t appeal a ruling by state Court of Appeals that could enable people held in jails for weeks while awaiting mental health evaluations to …
County Will No Longer House Inmates at SCORE Jail in South King …
WebThe sudden end of the agreement comes after four people in its custody have died at SCORE in the past year–an extraordinarily high number. The ACLU of Washington, concerned about conditions at the downtown King County jail, initiated a lawsuit in February against the county over lack of adequate medical and mental health …
Afternoon Fizz: “A Dictator Posturing As a Mayor
WebNot a handwashing station. 1. The manager of Seattle’s Equitable Development Initiative, Ubax Gardheere, and EDI staffer Boting Zhang sent out an open letter today denouncing Mayor Jenny Durkan as “a dictator posturing as a Mayor” and leading a city in which “women and people of color step up inside the institution” to do …
Public Restroom Closures Coincide With Shigella Outbreak Among …
WebSince the end of October, Public Health has received 61 reports of Shigella, 46 of those after December 14. Of that total, the vast majority—47—occurred among “people who reported experiencing homelessness or unstable housing or who accessed homeless services,” a spokeswoman for Public Health told PubliCola. Because these …
Unreleased Report Highlights Funding Challenges for Program …
WebTent removal in progress on a recent morning at Third and James in downtown Seattle. By Erica C. Barnett. A report commissioned by the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, but never publicly released, highlights some of the challenges the regional agency will face as it attempts to use federal Medicaid funding to pay for …
City Employees Seeking Wage Increase Advised to “Avoid Impulse …
WebOn Tuesday morning, the city council voted 5-4 against two proposals that would increase the JumpStart payroll tax, paid by the city’s largest companies, by a fraction of a percentage point to fund $40 million for future pay increases for city employees. The council did approve a $20 million increase in the tax to pay for mental health care
Harrell's Budget Would Move Parking Enforcement Back to SPD, …
WebHarrell’s proposal to use $95 million in JumpStart tax revenues to balance his budget will likely come up against council opposition.The tax is earmarked for housing, Green New Deal programs, and equitable development, but was used during the pandemic to shore up the general-fund budget, with the understanding that the practice would be …
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