IN FOCUS: Help #STOPTrackTragedies during Rail Safety Week.
LACEY, Wash. - With over 2,100 incidents each year, rail-related fatalities and serious injuries are a major issue in North America. To help resolve this issue, Operation Lifesaver (OLI), Operation Lifesaver Canada, the Mexican Association of Railroads, and Washington Operation Lifesaver (WAOL) are working together to promote Rail Safety Week from Sept. 18-24.
The Rail Safety Week campaign is committed to saving lives and preventing these incidents from occurring. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee supports these efforts and has issued an official proclamation to raise awareness and stop track tragedies.
During Rail Safety Week, anyone can join the virtual event by sharing videos and social media messages featuring personal stories of those affected by rail crossing or trespassing incidents. Use the hashtags #STOPTrackTragedies and #railsafetyweek to educate our communities and ultimately reduce the number of rail-related fatalities and serious injuries.
Operation Lifesaver is a non-profit public safety education and awareness organization dedicated to reducing collisions, fatalities, and injuries at highway-rail crossings and preventing trespassing on or near railroad tracks.
The UTC regulates railroad safety, including approving new rail crossings and closing or altering existing crossings, investigating train accidents, inspecting railroad crossings, endorsing safety projects, and promoting rail safety education through Washington Operation Lifesaver.--UTC
https://www.utc.wa.gov/news/2023/help-stoptracktragedies-during-rail-safety-week
IN FOCUS: Following Significant Policing Reform Progress, Federal Judge Terminates Most Consent Decree Provisions for City of Seattle and Seattle Police Department.
In response to a joint motion filed in March by the Justice Department and the City of Seattle, a federal judge terminated most provisions of a consent decree that led to significant policing reform. The court’s order recognizes the city’s consistent compliance with the core requirements of a 2012 consent decree regarding the Seattle Police Department (SPD). The order details the additional obligations that the city must take to continue the reform process.
According to the order, “SPD has made tremendous improvements in its policies, methods of operation and leadership with respect to the areas of use of force, stops and detentions and crisis intervention.” The court found that “the city has achieved sustained full and effective compliance, for at least two years, with the commitments set forth in the consent decree regarding crisis intervention, stops and detentions, bias-free policing, supervision and the Office of Police Accountability and terminate[d] the parties’ obligations” under those areas of the consent decree. For example:
After making changes to SPD’s policies and training on the use of force, SPD has reduced the use of serious force by 60%, and force is now used in less than one-quarter of one percent of all events to which officers respond.
To better respond to people experiencing behavioral health crises, SPD developed an advanced crisis intervention program in which civilian mental health professionals and non-police mobile crisis teams respond to behavioral health crisis incidents.
SPD developed policies and training to secure people’s rights during police investigative stops. The court monitor found that officers complied with legal and policy requirements in almost all instances it assessed.
“This ruling acknowledges the significant reforms implemented by the City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Department to ensure effective and nondiscriminatory policing for the community,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The court’s order gives the city and police department the ability to focus on the areas that need additional attention. We commend the city, police department and the community for continuing to collaborate on constitutional and non-discriminatory policing which benefits all residents in the City of Seattle.”
“I commend the personnel of the Seattle Police Department whose dedication has transformed policing in Seattle,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa Gorman for the Western District of Washington. “Hard work remains in how our police confront crowd control and disciplinary action for misconduct. We look forward to working with the department, the city accountability partners, the Community Police Commission and the citizens of Seattle to achieve these remaining reforms required by the consent decree.
The court order requires continued work related to use of force in the crowd management context, accountability and racial disparities. For example:
SPD must develop new crowd management policies, which must be approved by the court and independent monitor.
An independent monitor must review of the city’s accountability systems and provide a plan to identify and mitigate racial disparities in stops, detentions and the use of force.
The city must continue to measure whether the reforms required by the consent decree remain effective.
The Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s for the Western District of Washington’s Civil Division handled this matter.
The Civil Rights Division continues to prioritize constitutional policing and currently has pending investigations into police departments across the country, including in Memphis, Phoenix, New York City and Louisiana.
The consent decree, proposed agreement, as well as additional information about the Civil Rights Division, are available on its website at www.justice.gov/crt/special-litigation-section. --DOJ
CLALLAM COUNTY MEETINGS:
Clallam County Commission work session for 9/11/23
https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09112023-937
Clallam County Commission meeting for 9/12/23
https://www.clallamcountywa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09122023-938
City of Sequim Council meeting for 9/11/23
https://www.sequimwa.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2904
City of Forks Council meeting for 9/11/23
https://forkswashington.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Agenda-20230911.pdf
Clallam County PUD meeting for 9/11/23
https://go.boarddocs.com/wa/clallampud/Board.nsf/Public
JEFFERSON COUNTY MEETINGS:
Jefferson County Commission meeting for 9/11/23
https://media.avcaptureall.cloud/meeting/3d69ef86-6ede-4012-8af3-183128e7f48d
PORT TOWNSEND CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP MEETING AGENDA FOR 9/11/23
https://cityofpt.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&event_id=1971
Port of Port Townsend Commission meeting for 9/13/23
https://portofpt.com/wp-content/uploads/2023-09-13-CommMtg-Agenda.pdf
Weekly devotional
BIBLE VERSE: Titus 2:2 (New International Version)
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
Weekly Bible Study
The Church Is Born
The birth of Jesus Christ was the most unique birth that has ever occurred, because Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was born of a virgin. But the birth of Christ, as He took the form of man, became flesh, and dwelt among men, was for a specific purpose—that He might become the sacrifice for our sins through His death, burial, and resurrection, and, in so doing, that He might bring into existence His church. Without the birth of the church there would be no salvation for any of us.--TFTW
https://truthfortheworld.org/church-is-born
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https://www.worldbibleschool.org/
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http://www.worldenglishinstitute.org/
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The Chosen: About the life of Christ
https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen
THIS WEEK'S VIDEOS
The Economy Is NOT 'FINE'! Here's the TRUTH | Glenn TV.
Inflation now costs American families $709 more PER MONTH than it did in 2021. The Biden administration insists this is fine, but Americans know just how painful even a trip to the grocery store is. To illustrate this, Glenn shows how many items you could buy 20 years ago versus now. It may not be significant to the rich men north of Richmond, but when you add up all the things that actually make a family run, the total cost just to survive adds up to a whole lot of pain and suffering. But the Biden administration and their lackeys on the Left say jobs are soaring back and inflation is improving. Don't look to your wallet, which seems to be getting lighter every day. And DEFINITELY don't look at those gas prices or those grocery bills or that darn mortgage payment. But America’s economic problems go much deeper than politics. The entire system from the Fed on down is broken. Recovering investment banker and author of "You Will Own Nothing" Carol Roth cuts through the spin and breaks down what Bidenomics REALLY means for the average family. We’re now living in the era of the “Great Impoverishing,” Glenn says, and the “experts” are LYING to you.
Sunday Worship Service - 09/03/2023--Four Lakes Church of Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lBi4VdpCW0
NIGHT OWL COMICS PRESENTS: THE ANICENTS
Chapter 3: The Age of Aquarius ( A new Dawn)
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The winter snows blanket the mountains, and valley there their encampment was by the coastal shores of Poseidon, a new world, in a digital universe, they could barely understand. After a 2,000 year old conflict with the Neander's, his clan was at peace in their own lands, while the Neander's were on their lands starting their way of life, on other lands across the ocean. Zeus would wonder at times how is counterpart Bor Jupiter was fairing.
read the full story
https://pjrnightowlcomics.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-anicents.html
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