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Monday, February 23, 2004

Marijuana enforcement panel to meet

By HECTOR CASTRO
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

The panel created to monitor the enforcement of Initiative 75, which liberalized Seattle's enforcement of laws regulating the use of marijuana, holds its first meeting this week.

In September, Seattle voters passed I-75, which directs Seattle police and the City Attorney's Office to make marijuana possession their lowest law enforcement priority.

In Washington, possession of 40 grams or less of pot is a misdemeanor.

In December, the City Council created an 11-member panel to assess and report on the effects of the ordinance, from public safety to finances.

Officials with the police and City Attorney's Office must report marijuana arrests and prosecutions to the panel semi-annually.

As created, the panel comprises:

  • City Attorney Tom Carr, who opposed the measure.

  • King County Deputy Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, chief of staff for King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng.

  • Councilman Nick Licata.

  • Councilman Tom Rasmussen.

  • Seattle police Capt. Ronald Mochizuki.

  • D'Adre Beth Cunningham, with the Public Defender Association in Seattle.

  • Alison Chinn Holcomb, a private-practice defense lawyer.

  • Dominic Holden, who helped set up Sensible Seattle Coalition in 2000, which worked for the passage of I-75.

  • Theryn Kigvamusud'Vashti, a community activist who most recently was working as an organizer for the Black People's Project of Communities Against Rape and Abuse.

  • Kris Nyrop, executive director of Street Outreach Services in Seattle.

  • Kenneth Stark, director of the state Department of Social and Health Services' Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

    The panel is to meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall.

    P-I reporter Hector Castro can be reached at 206-903-5396 or hectorcastro@seattlepi.com
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