SEATTLE — A recent audit requested by Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold shows that Seattle police failed to follow a 2020 law that requires them to provide children with an attorney before they are interviewed or interrogated.
The independent Office of Inspector General for Public Safety (OIG) published the audit on Friday and shows that police only followed the law 4% of the time.
“This is one of the most straightforward civil rights protections we’ve enacted – police should not be able to question children until they have talked to a lawyer,” said Councilmember Lisa Herbold. “It’s such commonsense legislation that King County and then all of Washington State adopted it soon after we did.”
