City Council - Regular Meeting

long-term. Right now, we're working with Councilmember Kettle and City Attorney's Office and King County Prosecutor Lisa Mannion to get an FTE full-time employee to come in to be cross-deputized to look at misdemeanors and felonies and sex trafficking. So, long-term on the DIY, the...

People setting up their own barriers up there.

We got it. My goal before I leave is to make sure that some of those remain permanent. And we have a plan with SDOT and give Chief Barnes, as our ordinance says, the authority to when they believe and deem that there is criminal activity, that the chief of police on that word can go to SDOT and say, I believe these streets are unsafe, and for these reasons, I would like them closed for three months, six months, two years. I don't know. That's the plan.

Got it. Some thoughts about that, Councilmember Foster.

This is important work to make sure that we're keeping community members safe. And it has to be a combination of things, right? So that means the physical barriers that are in place. That means using our law enforcement tools and using the collaboration between the City of Seattle City Attorney's Office and the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. So we're going to need all of those to continue making progress. And I'm fully supportive.

All right. Looking forward to hearing more about that. Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Juarez, appreciate you being with me here. I'm Brian Callinan. If you want to see the full show of Council Edition, check it out at seattlechannel.org. you