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Why not try real solutions?
Spokane could just decide to love its community more. Everyone wants less crime, but leaning on police to do all the work just creates more prisoners. We need to actually invest in our community; in each other.
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SCAR Issues: Housing, Evictions, and Housing Justice
(Part 2 – Conversation with City Council Member Paul Dillon)
In this installment of SCAR Issues, Justice Forral sits down with Spokane City Council Member Paul Dillon to discuss critical housing issues, including the city’s recently implemented landlord registry. The conversation delves into the registry’s purpose, how it affects both landlords and tenants, and the broader impacts on Spokane’s housing crisis. Dillon shares insights on the city’s housing policies, eviction trends post-COVID, and efforts to ensure rental protections. The discussion also highlights the challenges renters face, including affordability and eviction risks, and explores how policy changes can create a more just housing system. Stay tuned for more on how racial justice intersects with housing justice in the last segment of Housing, Evictions and Housing Justice.
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Range Media
Faith leaders call on Woodward to formally support separation of church and state
The letter comes after the mayor appeared at a Christian nationalist event in Spokane.
Range Media
Racist statue removal stalled: ‘Who is this wait worth it for?’
The Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community has asked for the removal of a monument they call ‘racist and misleading.’ A mayoral veto and an empty city council seat stand in the way.
SCAR
Why not try real solutions?
Spokane could just decide to love its community more. Everyone wants less crime, but leaning on police to do all the work just creates more prisoners. We need to actually invest in our community; in each other.
Jerry Leclaire
Prosecutorial Discretion and Racial Prejudice (Part 1)
This is a reposting, originally published via Substack by Jerry Leclaire on May 22nd, 2023. In criminal legal cases (as opposed to civil cases) it is the County Prosecutor’s decision to “bring charges” on behalf of the state against a potential criminal defendant—or not. Either way, a County Prosecutor’s decision to level charges sets a course for the accused that is a punishment in itself. Prosecutorial decisions have the potential to ruin lives.
Jerry Leclaire
Haskell Backs Off — The role of systemic racism (Part 2)
This is a reposting, originally published via Substack by Jerry Leclaire on May 24th, 2023. On Monday, May 22nd, Kip Hill’s article in the Spokesman reported “Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office won’t retry Black man whose convictions prompted charge of racism by appellate judge.” This development needs extended context. Darnai Vaile, the “Black man” of the headline, was convicted of two counts of resisting arrest in a Spokane County Superior Court jury trial and sentenced to six months probation.
Spokesman
As Larry Stone stonewalls, Spokane City Council grudgingly invests in shelter he owns
Members of the Spokane City Council say it has become increasingly clear that developer Larry Stone, of the Stone Group of Companies, has no intention of selling the Trent Avenue property that has become Spokane’s largest homeless shelter.