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District staff, coaches, and students at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School face wide-ranging sanctions after the state’s school athletics regulatory body found that the football program illicitly recruited students.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-s-roosevelt-high-school-sanctioned-for-illicit-recruiting-of-football-players
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Seattle’s popular ride-share electric scooters are sending tens of thousands of people zipping across town — and some to Harborview with serious injuries. Last year, the city’s trauma hospital saw 163 serious injuries from e-scooters or e-bikes, many of them head injuries.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-s-e-scooters-are-hot-helmets-are-not-the-brain-injuries-can-be-profound
#KUOW #News #Seattle #Medicine #Transportation #Health #KidsAndParenting

A bill before Washington state lawmakers aims to prevent abuse in youth sports by making coaches mandatory reporters of abuse and requiring them to receive annual training on the law.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-lawmakers-consider-bill-to-prevent-abuse-in-youth-sports
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The King County Council has asked the county auditor to examine a controversial, $16 million program that puts community-based organizations in charge of juvenile criminal diversions.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-council-calls-for-audit-of-nonprofit-managed-juvenile-diversion
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Roosevelt High School in Seattle is under investigation by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association for alleged football recruiting violations as the team heads to state playoffs for the first time in a decade.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-s-roosevelt-hs-finally-made-the-football-playoffs-but-did-they-recruit-players-to-get-there
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On June 6, 17-year-old Amarr Murphy-Paine was fatally shot outside Seattle's Garfield High School during lunchtime. His father, Arron, sat down with KUOW for his first media interview since Amarr's death to remember his son's life — and seek information from the public to help police solve the case.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/amarr-murphy-paine-garfield-high-school-student-father-begs-student-witnesses-to-do-right-thing
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Seattle Police are investigating a string of recent muggings in South Seattle, including some that targeted kids. It’s similar to a slew of after-school robberies last school year around the city.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/kids-targeted-in-string-of-south-seattle-muggings
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A King County Superior Court judge held the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in contempt of court Friday for failing to transfer an 18-year-old convicted of robbery to a state juvenile rehabilitation facility.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-judge-finds-state-agency-in-contempt-for-keeping-teen-in-adult-jail
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There is concern and confusion in King County courts after a surprising decision from the state to suspend intakes of juvenile offenders at two correctional facilities due to overcrowding. Instead, youths sentenced to long-term confinement will remain under county oversight until further notice, the state Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) told county officials Friday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/conflict-and-confusion-after-state-suspends-intake-for-convicted-juveniles
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The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has started notifying schools when students are charged with felonies involving guns. The Safer Schools Strategy began this school year, partly in response to campus shootings.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-prosecutors-have-notified-schools-of-69-felony-gun-charges-against-students
#KUOW #News #Guns #KingCounty #SchoolShooting #Police #KidsAndParenting #SchoolsAndEducation #Crime

A $16 million effort by King County to send most juvenile criminal cases to community-based diversion programs, rather than the court system, is having trouble meeting its goals, a county report shows.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/community-diversion-program-for-youths-struggles-to-meet-goals
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The law, changed this legislative session, said teachers could hurt students to “correct” them as long as the violence was “reasonable and moderate” and caused only “transient pain or minor temporary marks.”
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-teachers-could-hurt-kids-to-correct-them-one-boy-shared-his-story-to-change-that
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Seattle Public Schools faces a lawsuit from a 2018 incident in which a math teacher at Meany Middle School punched an eighth-grader in the face in front of the entire class.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/former-student-sues-seattle-schools-after-teacher-punched-him-in-the-face
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A former volunteer weight-training coach at the Seattle high school faces felony charges for allegedly serially raping a female student athlete.
Separately, the former girls' basketball head coach was fired in 2022 following allegations of sexual misconduct involving the same student.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/two-former-garfield-high-school-athletic-coaches-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-student
#KUOW #News #SeattlePublicSchools #Education #SexualAssault #KidsAndParenting #Sports #SexualAssaultAndHarassment #Crime #SexualHarassment #Seattle

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