Mayor announces investment proposal for CARE Department, public safety solutions

City of Seattle (executive office) · September 18, 2025

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Speaker 2 (executive) opens the press event, lists presenters (Council President Sarah Nelson, Care Chief Amy Barton, Fire Chief Harold Scoggins, Lisa Dugard) and frames the announcement as a vision for "modern policing" with a third pillar: the Care Department.

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Seattle officials announced a nearly $40,000,000 budget package to expand the city's Care Department, add 20 firefighter recruits, expand post-overdose response teams, and stabilize LEAD long-term case management. Officials said the investments are intended to expand nonpolice crisis response, treatment access and coordinated first response.

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