Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People (via The Urbanist)
Some library staff say that a new enforcement crackdown led by the Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is turning librarians into part-time cops, and they’re not happy about it. For the past six years, SPL has been revising its code of conduct to make it more equitable and less punitive. The policy went into effect last August, and newly hired security chief Andrea Walton, who started the same month, immediately began moving things in the opposite direction, library staff say.