By Erica C. Barnett Mayor Katie Wilson announced she’ll proceed with an expansion of police surveillance in the Central ...

By Erica C. Barnett The NYU Policing Project released its long-awaited privacy and civil-liberties audit of the Seattle ...

By Josh Feit A Democratic Majority > Stephen Miller’s Promotion If you’re outraged that Trump promoted Stephen Miller to ...

Sponsor Dan Strauss said the mayor’s veto shows she’s “disingenuous” and can’t be trusted. By Erica C. Barnett Mayor ...

Budget chair Strauss balked at requiring the council to pass a budget that’s balanced long-term. “I’m concerned with how much ...

By Erica C. Barnett A five-member majority of the Seattle City Council declined to sponsor a proposal from Councilmember ...

King County Regional Homelessness Authority CEO Kelly Kinnison sought to exempt many of her emails from public disclosure last year, emails obtained through a Seattle records request and provided to ...

1. On Monday, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes announced permanent replacements for the two civilian command staff members he fired late last year, along with a newly created position of deputy chief ...

1. Sage Wilson, Mayor Katie Wilson’s press secretary, is leaving the mayor’s office after less than seven months on the job, after deciding he’d be more effective as an advocate for progressive causes ...

PubliCola sat down this week with Mayor Katie Wilson to talk about how her agenda is going at six months in, what she’s learned from the setbacks and conflicts she’s encountered (like early, ...

Tension between the head of the Seattle Police Department’s communications office, Lt. John O’Neil, and his staff boiled over last year, when a detective in the division, Valerie Carson, accused him ...

Content warning: This post contains descriptions of a violent, fatal traffic collision and images of a vehicle involved in that collision. Video from the body-worn camera of Seattle Police Department ...