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For five years a Snoqualmie woman escalated her emails and calls to city officials to further investigate her rape case. A judge told her to stop.

Of the minority of sex crimes that result in convictions, 60% end with guilty pleas to lesser offenses, leaving survivors disillusioned with the process.

While social media and dating apps have become hotbeds of child sex trafficking, Washington legislation has done little to stop it.

Courts could have collected over $2.5 million in fees in the past decade, which would have gone to programs to alleviate trafficking. Why didn’t they?

Laws on unexcused absences are meant to keep kids safe, but a lack of resources and fear of court have kept districts from completing necessary steps.

No one was looking for Kit Nelson-Mora, despite warning signs, until a friend contacted police over a year after their disappearance in Omak.

Some advocates say that legislation requiring law enforcement endangers survivors at risk of retaliation.

GOP-backed Let’s Go Washington is seeking to put the carbon capture law, police pursuit regulations, a capital gains tax repeal and more up for vote in November.

Washington lawmakers will offer their own proposals in the legislative session that begins next month.

The Department of Revenue said it could use legislative privilege to keep records private, but nixed the policy after criticism from Gov. Inslee’s office.