Good afternoon. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. We're not pulling any pranks on the show today, just the news. And with that, here are today's top stories. It's Monday, April 1st.

Washington senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, are pushing immigration detention facilities to stop misusing solitary confinement.

It's a push that immigrant advocates have been asking the senators to make for weeks.

Today, Murray, Cantwell, and 10 other senators wrote to the departments of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

urging them to stop the excessive use of solitary. They say they're concerned that ICE's solitary

confinement practices may also constitute cruel and unusual punishment. It comes more than two

weeks after a man died while detained in Tacoma's detention center,

and activists started a hunger strike to push lawmakers to act.

To Burian now, where the metaphorical sparks are still flying,

Buryon's mayor is speaking out about its legal battle with the King County Sheriff's Office.

They're at odds over the city's ban on encampments.

K-O-W's Diana-A-Pong reports.

Burian does not have its own police force. Instead, they have a contract with the sheriff's office.

Here's Mayor Kevin Schilling. We pay them about $16 million a year to provide law enforcement

services. We need to start prioritizing getting

people off the street. Last month, the sheriff's office sued, saying it did not want to enforce

an ordinance it calls vague and unconstitutional. Berian countersued last week,

alleging a breach of contract. The sheriff's office says the counter suit is a distraction,

and the city should wait for

judgment from federal court. Diana O'Pong, KOWW News. Unionized police officers in Seattle have

reached a tentative deal with the city for a new contract. The Seattle Times reports that the agreement

came over the weekend. Neither the city nor the Seattle Police Officers Guild

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