State statute requires schools to be notified when there’s a conviction, but prosecutors said it’s important for schools to know before that.
SEATTLE — The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office notified King County schools of 69 students charged with felony gun crimes. The notification is part of its “Safer Schools Strategy” that launched in January.
“If they can’t access guns, they can’t use them to commit felonies. Our concern is always access to weapons,” said Jamie Kvistad, senior deputy prosecutor at the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors said juvenile crime reached pre-pandemic levels and its Safer Schools Strategy helps to curb that. One
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