Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is promising to bring people together on Monday to discuss a solution for an ordinance on drug possession.
Seattle City Council voted 5-4 to reject an ordinance that makes drug possession a gross misdemeanorBut the failure cast the issue into uncertainty, with no real alternative plan and a fentanyl crisis that has Seattle on pace to have the most fentanyl overdose deaths in city history.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mary Robnett called the entire situation “odd” when asked about it on Friday.“I expect that the city of Tacoma will adopt that state statute as a municipal code, and that those cases will be prosecuted by the Tacoma City prosecutor in Tacoma Municipal Court. That's what I expect to happen,” she told KOMO News. “Most cities who have a municipal court adopt RCWs as a municipal code, and that gives them jurisdiction to prosecute those cases within their city limits.
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