Investigatewest is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to investigative journalism on environmental, social, and political issues in the pacific northwest. The proposed bill, hb 1428, was sponsored by rep Brian blake, a democrat from aberdeen and the chair of the house agriculture & natural resources committee The bill's improvement package included higher fees, civil enforcement tools and language to streamline permit regulations. Since the report uses data from 2020, criminal justice trends related to the pandemic are not reflected It also does not reflect cleared drug convictions due to the state supreme court’s blake decision in 2021, which found that the state’s drug possession law was unconstitutional.
But the process to vacate the cases is not automatic and has to occur in the court where the conviction was made. “washington era uno de los pocos estados del país que aún tenía ese lenguaje draconiano”, dijo katrin johnson, subdirectora de operaciones de la oficina de defensa pública de washington. Blake specializes in indoor air for the northwest clean air agency He and his mentor rich prill, a retired indoor air specialist for washington state university, have walked through thousands of classrooms and held seminars on the topic.
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