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Hey there. Good afternoon. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning with today's top stories. It's Tuesday, April 28th. Starting at the detention center, Washington State officials are demanding that health inspectors be allowed inside the immigration detention facility in Tacoma. State government reporter Sarah Mises Tan has more today.

The Northwest Ice Processing Center is owned by a private company called Geo Group.

It's denied state health officials entry 10 times in the past three years.

That's despite a law requiring health inspections.

Attorney General Nick Brown.

By refusing to let inspectors do their job, the GEO group is violating the law and sending the

message that Washingtonians don't deserve to know what is going on in their facility.

Brown's office filed an injunction today that would force the center to allow

health inspectors in. The state health department has received over 3,000 complaints about living

conditions inside the facility, ranging from dirty water to food-containing insects to sexual

assault. Geo Group did not respond to a request for comment. In Olympia, I'm Saramizes Tam.

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