Law Podcast
1) Hate Crimes Training Helps Local Officials Understand Affected Communities
With increasing news of public displays of white supremacy around the country, local law enforcement and elected officials recently took a deep dive into the state's hate crime statute.
Hate Crimes Training Helps Local Officials Understand Affected Communities
01:07 | Nov 13th, 2018
2) How A New Supreme Court Justice May Affect Cases Filed By Washington’s Attorney General
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has been particularly aggressive in filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, but the prospect of a new justice on the U.S. Supreme Court has implicati...Show More
3) Janus Decision Has Implications For Private-Sector Unions In Washington
Washington state has the third-highest rate of union membership in the country, after New York and Hawaii. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 only applies to w...Show More
4) Washington, Other States To Sue Trump Administration Over Family Separation
Washington is leading a coalition of states planning to sue the Trump administration over its policy of separating children from parents who are detained while crossing illegally or seeking asylum at ...Show More
Washington, Other States To Sue Trump Administration Over Family Separation
01:01 | Jun 21st, 2018
5) Woman Banned From Childcare For Decades-Old Conviction Sues To Get Job Back
Christal Fields thought she had finally shaken the decades-old conviction that had complicated much of her life. When she was banned from working in childcare two years ago, it was plain that wasn't t...Show More
Woman Banned From Childcare For Decades-Old Conviction Sues To Get Job Back
01:48 | May 25th, 2018
6) Group Raises Money To Bail Moms Out Of Jail For Mother's Day
When you think of Mother’s Day, you probably don’t think of someone sitting in jail. But the Northwest Community Bail Fund is hoping you will this year. As part of a national effort, called 2018 Mama’...Show More
7) Cost Of Investigating Child Pornography Puts Police Unit In Funding Pinch
When Seattle Police Capt. Mike Edwards says his department isn’t for everyone, he means it. “It takes a very special person to do this work and they can only do it for so long,” Edwards said of the st...Show More
8) Judge Says Trump Administration Must Prove Transgender Ban Is Not Based On Prejudice
A federal judge in Seattle says the Trump administration still has to prove its ban on transgender troops is constitutional. The judge says people who are transgender can continue serving for now.
Judge Says Trump Administration Must Prove Transgender Ban Is Not Based On Prejudice
01:20 | Apr 17th, 2018
9) DNA leads to cold case suspect sketches from 1987 slayings
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in Washington state on Wednesday released composite sketches based on DNA evidence of a suspect in an unsolved, 30-year-old double slaying of a young Canadian couple.
10) Does A Foreign Worker Program Verge On 'Indentured Servitude'? A Debate Simmers In Washington State
More than 18,000 foreign workers, most of them from Mexico, traveled legally to Washington last year to labor on the state's farms, largely in the apple, pear, and cherry industries. Recent high-profi...Show More