King County officials, including the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention and Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, are making arguments against limiting jail bookings amid the largest wave of COVID-19 the county’s seen yet.
Meanwhile, the Department of Public Defense, the corrections officers’ union and advocates for those who are incarcerated are arguing for such limits to reduce the spread of the omicron variant.
The two sides are being presented before the county’s Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee Tuesday in back-to-back briefings.
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