Over the past week, there have been significant changes made to the Tenant-Landlord Ordinance C36330. As of this post, the current document accessible to the public on the city’s website is not even updated with the changes made on 1/16/2023. Tenant leaders first heard about these changes yesterday 1/19/23. The late changes happened after tenants had their listening session with City Council Members Michael Cathcart and Karen Stratton, after the landlord-tenant listening session with the above-listed and Mayor Nadine Woodward, and after many groups including ours said to support the version we had initially understood the ordinance to be draft 12/07/22. We still support the original draft with the revisions we were told were missing at the tenant listening session on 1/10/23.

Spokane’s Mayor Nadine Woodward without process, and without taking the opinions of Spokane City Council or those who live in East Central, moved a police precinct where Juneteenth is held. “In June 2022, city officials interrupted the public consideration process to temporarily locate the Spokane Police Department in the previously vacant library space.” -(KHQ)

Monday, January 23, 5p - City Council Meeting w/ Tenant Protection Ordinances vote.

Tenants are prepared to tell city council members about issues that may or may not be addressed by the ordinances up for a vote such as rent increases, lease non-renewals, poor housing and maintenance conditions, fear of eviction, landlord accountability, and the need for rental relocation and rental assistance. Join in making your voice heard.

The truth is, everyone living at Camp Hope is doing so with the legal consent of the landowner, and the dozens of service providers and community members who work there daily are innovatively helping the people there take steps towards healthier living conditions and lives.

Conditions at Geiger are deplorable, and overcrowding at the downtown jail is unacceptable, but a new jail is not the answer. Email Mike Sparber at msparder@spokanecounty.org and let him know that Spokane needs a new approach to criminal justice, and that a new jail is not part of that approach.

What is a county prosecutor?

The county prosecutor is a publicly elected attorney who investigates and prosecutes crimes on behalf of the people of Spokane County.

In the last few months, Lesley Haskell and her husband, Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell, have been in the local news due to racist and troubling statements Lesley Haskell made on her Gab account. As detailed in the Inlander, Lesley called a Black woman the N-word and repeatedly referred to herself as a white nationalist. She regularly elaborates on her bigoted and conspiratorial worldview by praising Holocaust deniers, spewing anti-Black invective towards victims of police brutality and white vigilantism, and cheering on the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrectionists. Notably, Lesley Haskell didn’t get to this point overnight. Her escalating social media outbursts have been a subject of concern since her husband served as Deputy Prosecutor back in 2009, not least because she sometimes appeared to be disclosing information about active cases being handled by her husband’s office, including once he took the Prosecutor’s seat.

It's not Lesley, it's Larry. Making the case for the systemic/structural racism displayed by Haskell's County Prosecutor office. This is a data-backed reality.