| Excerpt: | "This bill recognizes the harm that public use causes our communities by creating the crime of public use," said Representative Jamila Taylor. "More importantly, it focuses on the most up-to-date science on recovery, working to connect people to treatment, housing, services, and employment opportunities." |
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| Published at: | 4:51 PM on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Substance Control |
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Category Archives: Civil Liberties
Washington State Legislature swiftly agrees on a Blake fix after going into special session
Several Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy in January 6th insurrection
| Excerpt: | These convictions are more than just a victory for the Department of Justice - they are an encouraging sign for the future of American democracy. For our republic to endure, attempts to overturn a free and fair election by force must be thwarted and their perpetrators held accountable. |
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| Published at: | 11:44 AM on Thursday, May 4th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, January 6th Attack on the Capitol |
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Oregon Republicans flee the Capitol to block gun safety and reproductive justice bills
| Excerpt: | Republicans in Oregon are once again holding up the business of the Oregon State Legislature by refusing to show up for work, which is preventing the Senate from taking up critical gun safety and reproductive justice bills. |
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| Published at: | 6:55 PM on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Reproductive Rights |
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Disney sues Ron DeSantis, seeking to have retaliatory laws declared unconstitutional
| Excerpt: | Of DeSantis’ actions, the Disney brief declares: “This government action was patently retaliatory, patently anti-business and patently unconstitutional. But the Governor and his allies have made clear they do not care and will not stop.” |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Ethical Business, First Freedoms |
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DONE! Governor Inslee signs assault weapons ban and two more gun safety bills into law
| Excerpt: | On April 25th, Governor Jay Inslee signed into law three pivotal new gun safety laws: a ban on assault weapons, a permit-to-purchase requirement, and a duty to impose reasonable controls law that gun manufacturers, distributors, and sellers must abide by. |
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| Published at: | 1:30 PM on Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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“Blake fix” bill fails in State House, prompting calls for special session on drug policy
| Excerpt: | Several Democrats joined the chamber's forty Republicans in casting nay votes, creating a potent obstacle to the bill's passage that leadership determined could not be surmounted before the clock ran out on the 2023 legislative session. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 PM on Sunday, April 23rd, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Substance Control |
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VICTORY! Assault weapons ban clears Legislature, heads to Governor Inslee’s desk
| Excerpt: | On April 19th, the state House of Representatives and Senate came to an agreement on mutually acceptable final language for House Bill 1240, which prohibits the manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of assault weapons. |
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| Published at: | 6:22 PM on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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VICTORY! My Health, My Data Act heads to Governor Inslee after House concurrence vote
| Excerpt: | By a vote of 57-40, the House voted to concur in the Senate amendments to House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D‑48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities). |
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| Published at: | 1:27 PM on Monday, April 17th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy, Reproductive Rights |
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VICTORY! Firearm Industry Responsibility & Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act heads to Governor Inslee’s desk
| Excerpt: | SB 5078 received a concurrence vote on April 14th, 2023. That means the Senate agreed with the changes that the House made to the bill, completing its journey through the bicameral legislative process. |
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| Published at: | 1:51 PM on Friday, April 14th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Washington State House of Representatives amends and approves police pursuit bill
| Excerpt: | A bipartisan majority of the Washington State House has endorsed updates to the law governing police pursuits, lowering the standard for police officers to instigate a chase from probable cause to reasonable suspicion while attaching a number of new conditions to police departments’ use of that pursuit authority. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Nondiscrimination |
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Nearly three-fifths of Washington voters support the Firearm Industry Responsibility & Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act
| Excerpt: | 59% of voters surveyed last month for NPI by Public Policy Polling said they supported enacting a new law to protect public safety by establishing duties of firearm industry members. 36% said they were opposed and 4% were not sure. |
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| Published at: | 2:50 PM on Monday, April 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Research Poll Findings, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Firearm fanatics remind us that they believe guns should have more rights than people
| Excerpt: | For firearm fanatics, those "unalienable Rights" of people are a secondary concern. More important to them than lives, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness is the manufacture, sale, import, and availability of guns. It's as if the guns are alive. The concern these firearm fanatics have for guns is really something. |
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| Published at: | 11:48 AM on Monday, April 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Secure Firearms Ownership |
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VICTORY! Washington State House votes to remove death penalty and Eyman’s two-thirds nonsense from our state’s body of laws
| Excerpt: | Legislation that would formally scrub a long list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington is now going to Governor Inslee after receiving a vote in both chambers. |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Friday, April 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Fiscal Responsibility |
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Issues facing LGBTQ+ community take center stage at 2023 YDWA Convention in Spokane