CIVICS: Local bodies discuss responses to state legislation, Spokane Valley struggles to stop “illicit massage,” and the city wants to work with the county to address the opioid epidemic.
Workers’ rights, protections for undocumented immigrants and queer kids, reproductive justice, voting access for incarcerated people, and a whole lot more this Washington legislative session.
ICE arrested the man from his home while his wife, a US citizen, was on her way home from the grocery store. He is being held at a facility in Tacoma, and a lawyer is trying to reopen his green card application.
The county commissioner, who says the investments belonged to his mother and were willed to him, has been the target of outcry in public meetings over nondisclosure of PFAS contamination.
At least four people arrested in Spokane County, one for unlawful border crossing, were transported and held for several days at the Kootenai County Jail.
