Disturbing allegations emerge about nonprofit
hired to end Bitter Lake encampment in Seattle
Posted By: Ron_lfp, 1/5/2022 11:09:58 AM
When the volunteer-run organization Anything Helps, (snip), approached Seattle Public Schools this summer and offered to end an encampment outside Broadview-Thompson K-12, the school district agreed. (snip) The district did not run a background check or confirm Mathias’ employment history, according to a spokesperson for Seattle Public Schools. (snip) Now, at Bitter Lake, two people who used to live in the encampment who spoke to The Seattle Times allege that at the same time Mathias was helping people move toward housing, he was pressuring them to help him buy methamphetamine, using nonprofit funds that came from the school district.
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Disturbing allegations emerge about nonprofit
hired to end Bitter Lake encampment in Seattle 3 replies
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When the volunteer-run organization Anything Helps, (snip), approached Seattle Public Schools this summer and offered to end an encampment outside Broadview-Thompson K-12, the school district agreed. (snip) The district did not run a background check or confirm Mathias’ employment history, according to a spokesperson for Seattle Public Schools. (snip) Now, at Bitter Lake, two people who used to live in the encampment who spoke to The Seattle Times allege that at the same time Mathias was helping people move toward housing, he was pressuring them to help him buy methamphetamine, using nonprofit funds that came from the school district.
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[cartoon] With a disturbingly big spike in gun violence this year, Seattle is beginning to feel like old Dodge City before Wyatt Earp showed up.
Tuesday afternoon, a woman was shot during a robbery in the Green Lake neighborhood. (snip) Oh, yeah, that staffing crisis. While more guns have been blazing, the city has seen 300 police officers quit their jobs in the last 18 months. A big share of those departures are certainly related to the drastic cuts in the police budget imposed by the city council majority — reductions that led to the resignation of Seattle’s first Black, female chief, Carmen Best.
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Seattle Public Schools (SPS) withheld the religious and medical exemption forms for the COVID-19 vaccination mandate until after the first deadline to get the Moderna vaccine passed. This entire process seems rigged against using exemptions.
School staff in Washington must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18, or they will be terminated. Medical and religious exemptions are supposed to be offered for employees who wish to seek them.
But a spokesperson for SPS confirmed that the district hadn’t sent out the forms yet. They are expected to go out this week. By the time staff receive the exemptions, it may be too late to use them.
Safety concerns over the scene in and around the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle have increased in recent weeks.
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But there’s a problem: It’s an illegal bazaar appealing mostly to homeless people. It sells what appears to be stolen goods. And the city hasn’t done anything about it yet. (snip) The Mayor’s Office ignored questions on whether or not they supported efforts to remove the bazaar from the sidewalk.
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The School District prevented the city from removing this "homeless" camp on school property since school started in 9/2021 until a few months ago. Protect the kids? The school board?