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Here are today's top stories. It's Wednesday, August 28th. The King County Council

voted in support of keeping juvenile detention open four years after Executive Dow Constantine

pledged to stop locking up young people. And Dornfeld reports. The council vote came at the end

of a five-hour meeting filled with passionate public testimony,

including many who implored the council to stop caging kids and called detention racist and

traumatizing. The motion was non-binding, but will inform an advisory committee the county tasked

with planning an alternative to the current youth jail, potentially without locked doors.

Council member Germai Zahalai helped develop amendments that called for improvement, not closure.

We can change what happens within the perimeter of a secure building,

so that it is more conducive to behavioral health and education and rehabilitation

in a way that I don't think it is currently.

The council called for more investments in meeting children's basic needs to prevent

delinquency in the first place. The move comes during a spike in juvenile crime that has

50% more youth in detention than before the pandemic. Ann Dornfeld, KUOW News.

Washington's Superintendent for Public Instruction issued guidance today that encourages schools to ban cell phones during the school day.

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