(The Center Square) – Seattle City Councilmember Sara Nelson has introduced legislation to add onto the city’s continued attempts to improve staffing levels at the Seattle Police Department. Nelson’s proposed ordinance would transfer positions from the Seattle Department of Human Resources to the Seattle Police Department and create a recruitment and retention program within the police department. More specifically, it would transfer $310,000 and three recruitment...
The Lake in the Hills Police Department announced the groundbreaking of their new police station will begin next week on the $26 million facility that will be double the size of the current station. The Lake in the Hills Police Department said the new police department will be built near the current village hall, 600 […]
During Amarillo City Council Meeting this week members from Amarillo Fire Department and Amarillo Police Department proposed to the council an increase in pay and benefits.
The Justice Department on Monday blasted Republicans’ effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over his refusal to turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.
The owner of a small newspaper in Marion, Kansas, a city of fewer than 2,000 residents, is suing his city and local police department, among other defendants, after officers conducted a raid on his home and newspaper office last summer.On Monday, Eric Meyer, owner of the Marion County Record, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Kansas, claiming that various public figures, in their official and personal capacities, violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when they searched his...
Erie City Council makes a push to get more people involved in changes they want to see throughout the city. A big part of their efforts to do so will be taking their council meetings to the road this summer calling it the City Council Neighborhoods Tour. Council will function the same way it would []
According to Seattle City Light crews are responding to about 12,000 outages.The areas expeierncing the current outage are in the Burien and South Seatttle are
A proposed referendum that could appear on the ballot in the next general election would give city voters the chance to decide if Reading City Council should have the power to fire city department heads.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A quarter-century ago, the Justice Department had few meaningful relationships with Native American tribes. While the federal government worked with state and local police and courts, tribal justice systems did not have the same level of recognition, said Tracy Toulou, who oversaw the department’s Office of Tribal Justice from 2000 until his […]
Civilian oversight board is excluded from reviewing report on civil rights violations.
Reign FC will have 11 regular season games air on KONG-TV and stream for free on the KING 5+ App during the 2024 season Seattle Reign FC today announced a new partnership that will provide local broadcast rights for 11 regular season games to fans in the region during the 2024 NWSL season. Kicking
The Iowa City City Council discussed the possibility of becoming a Sister City with another international city at its April 2 meeting. Deputy City Manager Redmond Jones II gave a presentation during the work session portion of the meeting and answered the councilors’ questions about the logistics and benefits a sister city would bring to