A helpful guide answering many common questions about practical legal issues for transgender individuals to understand their legal rights in Washington State.
Like many community partners, we are disappointed that King County has announced the decision to delay the closing of the youth jail past the year 2025.
Over 30 labor, tribal, medical groups, and criminal justice organizations joined the ACLU-WA and FAMM in support of a bill that retroactively and prospectively repeals the use of prior juvenile convictions to automatically enhance future sentences in adult courts.
Maintaining or increasing penalties for drug possession and relying on jails and prosecution as a pathway to treatment would be repeating the mistakes of the past and continuing the failed legacy and racially inequitable outcomes of the War on Drugs.
