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fter the death of George Floyd last year sparked international outcry and spurred a mass protest movement, the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council could have been perfectly situated to deliver quick reform. After all, the mission of the Law and Justice Council an intergovernmental committee composed of local representatives from politics, law enforcement, the legal system and other community stakeholders is to reimagine criminal justice in Spokane. Instead, some of the group s members say, the council was mired in stalemate and dysfunction. That was also the conclusion of the three Spokane authors of the
Blueprint for Reform, an exhaustive list of Smart Justice criminal justice reform recommendations that spurred the resurrection of the Law and Justice Council in 2014.
My last column touched a nerve with some readers, one of whom denounced me as a â ⦠woke, bitter little man.â Bitter, OK, I do have teenagers at home, but wielding the word âwokeâ as a cudgel reveals more about the author than it does about me. More Headlines
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s we begin to see the light at the end of the pandemic, what could we do (or at least start) this year to make the Inland Northwest more fun, more livable, more just, more practical, more successful, more hopeful? That s the unnecessarily wordy question we put to some of our favorite local thinkers. Their responses, amassed together in the following pages, create an inspired wish list for our region and if we re lucky (and work hard), more than a few of them could come true!
Young Kwak photo Kim Arrotta, co-owner of Northtown Auto Sales, was frustrated that a next-door business, a sex shop, remained open throughout the spring shutdown.
LOCKDOWNS PITTED ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES AGAINST EVERYONE ELSE Previous years introduced new slang like manspreading and metrosexual into the cultural lexicon. In 2020? We got phrases like social distancing and essential businesses, bland jargon that our lives and our livelihoods depended on. By March 23, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee had officially issued his Stay Home, Stay Healthy order, shuttering most businesses in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus before it completely overwhelmed our health care system.
SPOKANE, Wash - A Federal Grand Jury has charged a Spokane couple with producing sexually explicit images and video involving a two-year old boy, and then selling it.
According to Federal Court documents, Audree Leanna Pederson and Daniel Augustine Solis have been charged with Conspiracy to Produce Child Pornography, Production of Child Pornography and Distribution of Child Pornography.
Pederson had been facing charges in the Spokane County Courthouse, and court documents from that case say Pederson claimed she did it after her Solis blackmailed her by threatening to release sex tapes he recorded of them during their relationship. Court documents say the videos show the woman crying while performing sex acts on the toddler. The docs say that Pederson told detectives she chose her love for her ex-boyfriend over the welfare of the child.