Read letter from Columbia Legal Services who, joint by the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, request that the City of Seattle’s Office of Human Rights “evaluate the City’s procedures and practices of sweeping homeless individuals from their places of shelter to ensure the City makes good on its commitments to race equity and social justice, and to ensure compliance with all applicable civil rights laws.”
Read the following letter and press release from December as well:
Homeless Sweeps Exacerbate Problem: Letter to Mayor Ed Murray:
In December, together with Columbia Legal Services and the ACLU of WA, the Coalition wrote to Seattle’s Mayor Murray detailing our concerns about the harmful effects of recent sweeps of people who are homeless outside.