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The retroactive deal covers back pay for 2021-2023, but does little to increase accountability measures. The city is negotiating for a 2024 contract.

Though the report said agencies are complying with the law, they could do better at helping people reclaim seized property and tracking demographic data.

While the Legislature will fund law enforcement instruction, in recent sessions it failed to allow cities to reroute tax revenue to hire new cops.

Conditions in the immigrant detention facility have garnered over 300 complaints, but a law to increase state oversight is still tied up in court.

Too many cases, too few lawyers and too little money hurt local governments’ ability to provide effective counsel to those with financial constraints.

The tribal court system, which had occupied a cluster of trailers since the ’50s, plans to add services like a mental health or a veterans court.

Companies like Meta and Bloomberg draw upon a database of 191,000 books to train the tools. Local writers aren’t happy, and lawsuits are in the works.

Steep drops in the incarcerated population prompted the shutdown of Clark County’s Larch Corrections Center.

Councilmembers narrowly rejected a bill to allow the City Attorney’s Office to prosecute possession and public use.

The SPD has been under a Department of Justice ‘consent decree’ since 2012 due to excessive use of force.

An immigrant businesswoman and a Mariners ticket hawker faced sentencing this week over separate schemes to steal thousands in COVID-19 stimulus money.

Local bike cops drove a national evolution toward forceful crowd tactics — and made money doing it.

The 45th president's personal lawyer and “fixer” pulls no punches about shady dealings and ongoing legal troubles.