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The Spokane Regional Law & Justice Department noted that bringing the services in-house would far exceed the $9.3 million for staffing but didn’t elaborate on a total cost.
Aug. 14—The Spokane County sheriff wants voters to approve a $1.7 billion sales tax that would pay for a new jail and other public safety improvements. Sheriff John Nowels made his case for ...
The first Travel Washington bus route to open was the Grape Line, which began service in December 2007. It was also the first bus service to be funded through a private-public partnership between the Federal Transit Administration and private operators, with the former matching the latter's investments with grant money.
The People to People Student Ambassador Program was a travel service based in Spokane, Washington, offering domestic and international travel opportunities to middle and high school students. The group was founded in 1956, during the Eisenhower administration, and reincorporated in 1995.
Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International was founded in 1935.. APCO serves government functions that provide public safety communications services in areas of law enforcement, forestry, conservation, fire, highway maintenance, emergency rescue and medical services, emergency management, and other activities supported or endorsed by federal, state, local and ...
Sep. 17—The Spokane County commissioners oppose an effort that uses state funds to improve voter turnout among jail inmates, but the project is moving forward anyway. Spokane County Auditor ...
Don Hooper, chief of Spokane County Detention Services, walks through a cell at the downtown jail, which is often at a "red-light status" due to a lack of capacity.
Rural communities in Spokane County advocated for a more rural location, and even threatened to secede and form a new county if a satisfactory site was not chosen. At the time, the north bank of the Spokane River was largely undeveloped, which appeased the rural communities, but also well-connected to the business district just across the river ...