North Precinct Advisory Council Minutes – May 2013

This month’s speaker was Honorable Edward McKenna from Seattle Municipal Court. Municipal Court handles misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors, such as DUI, domestic violence, parking tickets, burglar false alarms, etc.

It contains four specialty courts:

1 – Veteran’s Treatment – voluntary court-monitored long-term therapeutic treatment program.

2 – Mental Health – voluntary services if mental illness is related to or a cause of the offend’er’s criminal activity.

3 – Domestic Violence – for handling domestic violence cases.

4 – Community Court – community service and social services linkages for low-level, non-violent misdemeanor offenders.

See minutes on that topic and other public safety news from the North Precinct here.