(The Center Square) - The city of Seattle’s Public Record’s Office claims it will take four months to release former Police Chief Shon Barnes’ contract in response to a request by The Center Square.
(The Center Square) - Public sector unions, which will directly benefit from the millionaire's tax, make up virtually all the contributions to the campaign against the initiative to repeal Washington’s newly enacted income tax, according to the Public Disclosure Commission.
(The Center Square) - The Washington state operating budget has increased by 230% since 2001, according to a presentation to the Joint Legislative-Executive Committee on Budget Transparency and Fiscal Sustainability.
(The Center Square) - The average salary for directors and supervisor within Washington’s K-12 education system have increased by more than a third in just five years, according to state fiscal data analyzed by The Center Square.
(The Center Square) - Washington Attorney General's Office spokesman told reporters there was “no story” in a scoop by The Center Square about AGO and legislative communications over the millionaire's tax, dismissing the investigation as “misinformation” and “nonsense,” new internal emails show.
(The Center Square) - The Washington State Attorney General’s Office is proposing new model rules for how state and local governments comply with the Public Records Act, a move many advocates say is needed to address what they consider ongoing compliance issues.
(The Center Square) -- The Washington State Attorney General’s Office advised its client, the Secretary of State’s Office, to release attorney-client privileged communications unredacted as a “middle ground” in response to a public records appeal by The Center Square, emails show.
(The Center Square) - The release of sensitive internal communications between the Washington State Attorney General’s Office and lawmakers about how to push forward a millionaire's tax appeared to be "on the fly" and "discriminatory," with some getting all the documents and other heavily redacted versions, records and interviews obtained by The Center Square show.
(The Center Square) - Puget Sound Regional Council's recent update to their 2050 regional transportation plan failed to account for Sound Transit's recent changes to ST3 deferring certain light rail extensions, some transportation experts argue.
(The Center Square) - If the Washington state Legislature were to enact a wealth tax as proposed in recent years, it would face significant legal challenge and a "realistic possibility” of being overturned by the State Supreme Court for violating the state constitution’s uniformity clause, according to a new memo from the State Attorney General’s Office obtained by The Center Square.
