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This is Seattle now.

I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's

top stories. It's Thursday, March 19th. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced today. She's partly

pausing the expansion of government surveillance cameras. Wilson will also turn off hundreds of

police license plate readers until an audit determines

whether the federal government will be able to access any of the video.

Sometimes as the mayor, you make decisions that no one's going to like.

This might be one of those. We'll see.

Wilson will allow the installment of 26 new cameras in the stadium district ahead of the World Cup,

but says the cameras won't record unless there's, quote, a credible threat that warrants

turning them on. The new mayor has seen intense political pressure from her hardcore supporters

to turn all police cameras off because of fears that federal immigration enforcement could

access them. On the other hand,

businesses and some South end community members argue the cameras can help solve crimes. More details

have emerged about a Department of Homeland Security arrest in Seattle's U-District this week.

Gustavo Segreiro has more. Court records identify the woman arrested as

Entrain de Carmen Hernandez. She's facing federal charges connected to an alleged sex trafficking

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