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Public comments at Pierce County meeting focus on homelessness deaths, identity theft hardships and clerk-oath concerns

Pierce County Council · January 6, 2026
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Summary

During the council’s community forum, speakers urged better counting of unhoused deaths, called for temporary identification documents to speed recovery from identity theft, and alleged potential missing oaths of office in the Clerk of Superior Court; the chair said the council would follow up.

At the Pierce County Council’s Jan. 6 community forum, three members of the public urged the council to address homelessness fatalities, identity-theft recovery barriers and the administration of the clerk’s office.

Sally Perkins (District 4) asked the council to mark Homeless Persons Memorial Day by improving how the county counts and responds to deaths among people experiencing homelessness. Perkins recounted a neighbor in Hilltop who had a broken wheelchair, multiple sweeps that removed his belongings, and…

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