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Though the report said agencies are complying with the law, they could do better at helping people reclaim seized property and tracking demographic data.

The tribal court system, which had occupied a cluster of trailers since the ’50s, plans to add services like a mental health or a veterans court.

While Washington has some of the toughest trafficking laws in the nation, law enforcement in Seattle and Portland struggle to put policy into practice.

For 30 years, the state has increasingly adopted alternative forms of justice. But are these systems working?