Then, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson ran against expanding police surveillance cameras. Now she’s decided to flip the switch on more of them. With the usual Seattle Nice sniping, we dig into what NYU’s civil liberties audit actually found, what the cameras can (and can’t) do, and whether new safeguards go far enough to protect privacy.
Meanwhile, things got even weirder at City Hall, with our democratic socialist mayor becoming one of its leading deficit hawks. Budget Chair Dan Strauss is accusing her of crafting an “austerity” plan, while he and some council colleagues keep tossing more goodies into the shopping cart.
Plus: Will the city’s new RV plan actually work?
Note: We recorded Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday, the City Council fell one vote short of overriding Wilson’s veto of the permitting bill in Dan Strauss’s RV package.
Next week: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown joins us.