Seattle City Attorney's Office Has 3,800 More Backlogged Cases Than Originally Reported

Seattle City Attorney's Office Has 3,800 More Backlogged Cases Than Originally Reported

The city attorney’s office sees between 10,000 and 11,000 cases annually. “Knowing we have to not only focus on the stuff coming at us right now, but also tackle this ginormous, 5,100 case backlog is pretty devastating,” Evans says. Blame Damien, the office's old computer software. by Nathalie Graham During Erika Evans’ first week on the job as the Seattle City Attorney, she told The Stranger that her predecessor, Ann Davison, left behind a back…

Facing Thousands of Backlogged Cases, New City Attorney Says She'll Reorg Her Office for Faster Results

By Erica C. Barnett When former city attorney Ann Davison started her term in 2024, she pledged to swiftly eliminate…

Seattle City Attorney Says ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Predecessor Left Big Case Backlog » The Urbanist

The Seattle City Attorney’s Office has recently learned they’ve inherited a backlog of more than 5,000 misdemeanor cases from the previous administration under former City Attorney Ann Davison.  In a similar fashion, when Davison assumed office in 2022, she reported having a backlog of close to 5,000 misdemeanor cases from her predecessor, Pete Holmes. At the time, the problem was shrugged off as being mostly due to the chaos caused by the Covid…