There wasn’t a ton of non-budget-related stuff in Council Chambers today, but here’s what did happen.
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Kevin Schofield is a freelance writer and the founder of Seattle City Council Insight, a web site providing independent news and analysis of the Seattle City Council. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he worked for Microsoft Corporation for 26 years. That culminated in a term as Chief Operations Officer for Microsoft Research, the division of the company focused on advancing the state of the art in computing. Upon leaving Microsoft in 2014 he decided to embrace his love of writing. Kevin volunteers at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. He is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Beyond writing, his personal passions are his twin daughters, photography, cooking, and playing the guitar. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Here are the cuts that the City Council is considering for SPD’s budget
Last Friday and today, the City Council’s budget committee walked through three dozen potential amendments to SPD’s budget for the rest of the year, setting up a vote on those amendments on Wednesday. Here’s what’s on the table.
Continue readingMonday news roundup
Welcome back from a beautiful weekend! In a week where the City Council is set to make major budget decisions, we’re talking about two of them today.
Continue readingThis week in Council Chambers
Finishing up the process of rebalancing the 2020 budget…
Continue readingJudge modifies approval of SPD subpoena for news media footage of protests, stays ruling for three weeks
In a hearing that began Thursday morning, recessed multiple times, and ultimately finished up midday today, Judge Nelson Lee made modifications to his earlier approval of SPD’s subpoena for the footage that several local news media companies took of criminal activity at the May 30 protest and riot. He then (mostly) stayed that order for 21 days to allow the news companies to appeal his ruling.
Continue readingTrial date set for contempt charges over SPD use of crowd-control weapons (UPDATED)
This morning, Judge Richard Jones set a trial date and determined several other parameters for his consideration of contempt charges over SPD’s alleged violation last Saturday of a preliminary injunction that restricts the department’s use of crowd-control weapons. The five-day trial will begin on August 26 and conclude on September 1.
Continue readingFriday news roundup
Defunding the police, and more.
Continue readingJudge Jones orders evidentiary hearing on SPD contempt charge
This afternoon, Judge Richard Jones issued an order calling for an evidentiary hearing to resolve the accusation by the ACLU and Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County that the Seattle Police Department violated the judge’s preliminary injunction and is thus in contempt.
Continue readingThursday news roundup
The debate over defunding SPD is coming to a head.
Continue readingCity responds to motion for contempt, denies wrongdoing
Late this afternoon the City of Seattle filed a response to the motion earlier this week by Black Lives Matter and the ACLU to hold the city in contempt for violations of the preliminary injunction put in place by Judge RIchard Jones last month. That injunction put restrictions on SPD’s use of crowd-control weapons, include tear gas and blast balls.
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