The Seattle Police Department (SPD) plans “to acquire and use Unmanned Aerial Systems for specialty teams and patrol operations” according to documents obtained by HardPressed. SPD’s Mirs Vonaschen-Cook submitted an initial technology “privacy assessment” request to Seattle’s Information Technology Department (ITD) in July 2023. Months later in April

On the morning of Trump’s second Presidential election victory, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) took unilateral action against myself and other members of the public, effectively moving to shut down our access to public records. Multiple SPD communiqués sent through the city’s public records portal, GovQA, described monumental

One month after The Urbanist published my report into SPD’s use of mutual aid, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) jointly quashed an official audit into the policy. My reporting showed that SPD policy allowed mutual aid agencies that respond to Seattle to deploy

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) commanders continue to disseminate false information to the public and elected lawmakers. That conduct may be criminal under Washington State Law. However, the arbiter of whether or not their conduct should be referred for criminal charges is SPD themselves. A top SPD executive now says