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Council advances ordinance to criminalize endangering children with controlled substances to second reading
Summary
Council advanced Ordinance 25-011, a city-level gross misdemeanor for knowingly or recklessly allowing a child or dependent person to have contact with certain controlled substances (excluding cannabis in the draft), to a second reading after discussion of scope and penalties.
The Spokane Valley City Council voted unanimously to advance a draft ordinance, Ordinance 25-011, to a second reading that would make it a gross misdemeanor to knowingly or recklessly permit a child or dependent person to ingest, inhale, absorb or have contact with a controlled substance other than cannabis, unless the substance was obtained pursuant to a valid prescription or order from a practitioner acting in the course of professional practice.
Senior Deputy City Attorney Tony Beatty described the current state statute that covers methamphetamine manufacturing exposures and noted a gap in state law for fentanyl and many other controlled substances. The draft…
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