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Resident presses Pierce County Council on court records, urges support for making clerk an elected office
Pierce County Council · April 14, 2026
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Summary
At the community forum a resident, Heather Benedict, alleged a county clerk destroyed her mother’s probate court order and urged the council to support Proposal P1 to make the county clerk an elected position, saying the change would increase transparency and accountability.
During community forum at the April 2026 Pierce County Council meeting, Heather Benedict, a District 2 property owner, accused an appointed county clerk of destroying her mother’s probate court order and described a decade‑long effort to obtain accountability. Benedict said she has assembled…
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