SB 6608: Criminal street gangs

Summary

• Requires the Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee to issue a request forproposal to implement five pilot projects designed to prevent, intervene, and suppress street gangs and gang violence and appropriates $10 million for the purpose.
• Requires the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) to establish a gang grant program for local law enforcement agencies with the goal of targeting gang crime and appropriates $2 million for the purpose.
• Requires the WASPC to establish a grant program to support local graffiti and tagging abatement programs and appropriates $1 million for the purpose.
• Requires the Washington State Patrol to create a statewide gang database for law enforcement and criminal justice agencies to use for assessing and addressing the problems associated with criminal street gangs.
• Authorizes local jurisdictions to seek civil injunctions to prevent criminal street gang activity.
• Creates the crime of "Criminal Gang Recruiting" and increases the sentence when an adult, convicted of a felony, has solicited a minor in order to involve that minor in the commission of a felony.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 6608), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗