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Public comments: advocates call for counting unhoused deaths; resident raises clerk-oath concerns and identity-theft struggles
Summary
Speakers at the community forum urged the council to better count unhoused deaths, asked whether the Superior Court clerk’s oath is on file, and raised barriers victims face when replacing identity documents; the council said it would follow up on the clerk oath.
At the community forum, three members of the public pressed the council on separate but substantive issues: the need to track deaths among unhoused people, concerns about the clerk of the Superior Court’s oath of office, and persistent identity-theft harms that impede victims’ recovery.
Sally Perkins, speaking about Homeless Persons Memorial Day, described an unhoused neighbor in Tacoma who died in September after repeated sweeps and gaps in services. Perkins said the county does…
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