1. The Seattle Police Department spent more than $6,300 on a month-long stay at the four-star Arctic Club Hotel in downtown Seattle for Lee Hunt, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes’ Executive Director of Crime and Community Harm Reduction, after Barnes appointed him to the newly created position earlier this year. Hunt, who makes more than $300,000 a year, also worked for Barnes in Madison, WI, where Barnes was previously chief.
Expense records PubliCola has reviewed show that Hunt stayed in a room that cost between $221 and $293 a night between May 7 and June 7 of this year. The total cost to the city for the long-term hotel stay, according to an itemized receipt, was $6,330.
It’s unclear if the city paid for other Barnes appointees to stay at hotels as part of their moves to Seattle. As we reported earlier this year, Barnes brought in a number of new hires from outside Seattle, including a second deputy police chief, an assistant chief, a chief of staff, and a chief communications officer, in addition to Hunt, at an annual cost of more than $1 million.
In response to detailed questions, which included an inquiry about whether other Barnes hires also received an extended hotel stay as part of their moving costs, SPD’s communications office said, “All Command leaders who joined Seattle Police Department from locations outside of Seattle to bring their expertise here received a specific relocation package.
“Under that process, they submit receipts for review – and if approved, they get reimbursed per their agreed-upon package.”
SPD did not respond to questions about whether other out-of-town executive hires, including Barnes, were put up in hotels long-term after they moved to Seattle; nor did they respond to a question about whether SPD is currently subsidizing or paying for Barnes’ apartment. Many of SPD’s new top executives, including Barnes, live in Seattle while their families continue residing in the states where they used to live.
2. Under the Seattle Police Officers Guild’s just-approved contract with the city, police sergeants are authorized to deal internally with any police misconduct that falls below the level of “serious” misconduct, defined in SPD’s policy manual to include violations like insubordination, “serious neglect of duty,” and dishonesty.
Supporters of the change, including Seattle City Council public safety chair Bob Kettle, have said that authorizing sergeants to deal with minor misconduct helps build a more ethical, self-governing police force and frees the Office of Police Accountability to focus on more serious matters.
It’s unclear, however, precisely what kinds of misconduct sergeants will be authorized to dispense with internally. In SPD’s current policy manual, “serious misconduct” does not include behaving unprofessionally—raising the possibility that incidents like the one in which former SPOG vice president Daniel Auderer laughed about the killing of pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula by officer Kevin Dave, would be handled internally and never come to light.
(Auderer’s “joke” that Kandula’s life was only worth $11,000 because she was young was caught on camera and discovered by a civilian SPD staffer reviewing video for records requests filed by PubliCola and other outlets).
A spokesperson for the OPA told PubliCola the new “frontline investigation” process “is not effective until finalization of an updated policy. OPA will take an active role in the creation of the new Frontline Investigations program to develop accountability and consistency.”
Slide from this year’s Billy Graham National Law Enforcement Ministry conference, meant to illustrate that love “can’t be coerced” (it got a big laugh)
By Erica C. Barnett
Seattle Police Department sergeant Christopher Gregorio sent a department-wide email Monday morning inviting officers and their spouses who have been involved in an Officer Involved Shooting and/or officers who have been injured in the line of duty” to sign up for a free retreat hosted by the Billy Graham Law Enforcement Ministry.
The ministry is part of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which is now headed by Graham’s son Franklin, a close ally and vocal supporter of Donald Trump who—like his father—has a history of bigoted comments about LGBTQ people, believes that the Bible commands women to obey their husbands, and believes women who have abortions are committing “murder” for the sake of their own “pleasure” and convenience.”
The email, which was cc’d to SPD Chaplain Charlie Scoma, said the invitation had been approved by Lieutenant Gregory Fliegel from SPD’s Employee Support Services.
In 2021, then-police chief Adrian Diaz rescinded an internal invitation to a dinner hosted by the same organization, saying the email had “raised concerns that the SPD may not be committed to the equity of our community’s LGBTQ members.”
According to its website, the Billy Graham Law Enforcement Ministry’s next law enforcement appreciation retreat will be held next March at a Marriott near Dulles Airport, outside Washington, D.C. In addition to free admission, officers’ rooms will be paid for by the ministry, along with their meals. At the cheapest available rate for those dates, the lodging alone is likely worth at least $550.
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Videos from this year’s retreat show speakers discussing how to share the gospel of Jesus with nonbelieving coworkers, joking about how to sustain a healthy marriage (see screen shot above), and complaining about the media.
During one panel, three men and one woman responded to a male officer’s question about how he could take back his role as head of his family by saying he needed to let his wife know that God made him the “leader” of her and their children. “It’s your role to be the head of the household, and it’s the wife’s role to be the mother to those kids,” a retired Houston police officer said.
SPD’s communications office told PubliCola on Tuesday that the event “is a well-intentioned opportunity for officers. It is not endorsed by the Department or the Chief of Police,” Shon Barnes. ”
“There are many conferences available from multiple organizations throughout the country that officers can consider attending on their own time,” the SPD spokesperson added, in response to a question about the legality of accepting gifts with financial value from a religious group.
Gregorio, the sergeant who sent the email, may sound familiar to PubliCola readers: He’s one of the officers who killed Terry Caver, a 57-year-old Black man who suffered from mental illness, on a Queen Anne sidewalk in 2020. Gregorio received a 20-day suspension for the shooting, on the grounds that he violated SPD’s policy on deescalation by driving right up to Caver, who appeared to be in crisis, and almost immediately shooting him. Since then, he has been promoted to sergeant.
Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office would not answer our questions about SPD’s invitation to the Billy Graham retreat, saying they would “defer” all questions to SPD.
PubliCola has also reached out to City Councilmember Bob Kettle, who chairs the public safety committee, and will update this post if we hear back from him.
Councilmembers Sara Nelson, Debora Juarez, and Maritza Rivera confab before leaving council chambers Tuesday.
The contract, which provides $126,000 paychecks to rookie cops after 6 months, also imposes restrictions on the CARE team of unarmed first responders, prohibiting them from responding without a police escort on most calls.
By Erica C. Barnett
With three council members voting “no,” the city council approved a new contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild that gives rookie cops a starting salary of $118,000—with an automatic bump to $126,000 after just six months—with few of the new accountability requirements Seattle residents were promised in 2024, when the council approved SPOG’s most recent retroactive contract.
The 2024 contract gave cops retroactive pay increases of 23 percent; the contract adopted Tuesday, which goes through 2027, gives them additional raises of 42 percent over the next two years.
The deal, which goes through the end of 2027,still falls far short of implementing accountability legislation the city passed in 2017. That legislation called for the city’s Office of Police Accountability and Office of Inspector General to have full subpoena power when investigating misconduct (to date, they’re only allowed to subpoena public records, precluding access to things like text messages on officers’ personal phones). It also called for an end to outside arbitration, a process that allows officers to appeal disciplinary decisions to private arbitrators outside Seattle, and a lower standard of proof for misconduct allegations. None of these measures are in the contract; only one, the standard of proof, will be subject to an additional arbitration process (meaning it could still happen if the city wins its case against SPOG.)
In fact, the contract includes just two changes related to accountability. First, it simplifies a 180-day “clock” for disciplinary decisions, removing some carveouts that have contributed to very long delays between the time when someone files a misconduct complaint and when it gets resolved. Second, it allows sergeants, rather than the Office of Police Accountability, to determine discipline for “less than serious” misconduct, theoretically freeing up OPA to investigate more serious claims.
It’s unclear what will happen to cases involving professionalism and conduct unbecoming an officer, which are largely subjective; we’ve asked SPD and OPA whether a case like that of Daniel Auderer, who defended his offensive jokes about the police killing of 23-year-old pedestrian Jaahnavi Kandula as “gallows humor,” would be dealt with internally under the new rules and never see the light of day.
“This has been part of a two year process to get here, two years for us on the [Labor Relations Policy Committee] and the Select Labor Committee. This is not a rushed process,” public safety committee chair Bob Kettle said. “One of the things I’m constantly looking at is to create a functional criminal justice—a functional public safety system. This is what we’re doing with this agreement.”
After the contract passed, SPOG President Mike Solan posted this gloating tweet.
Three council members voted against the agreement—an unprecedented number in recent years. Councilmember Rob Saka, who announced his opposition in a press release and op/ed in the Stranger, said he couldn’t support giving such large raises to police without extracting some accountability concessions.
“I have lived through encounters where the actions of an officer cross the line, where I felt fear rather than protection. I’ve experienced police brutality firsthand,” Saka said. “These moments have shaped me, and I carry them with me every single day, not with resentment or animus, but with responsibility. No person in Seattle should ever feel powerless, unseen or vulnerable to unequal justice and an encounter with law enforcement.”
Saka also noted that the huge pay increases come at an increasing cost—by 2027, an estimated budget increase of $57 million a year— at a time when the city is facing major budget deficits and federal cuts to programs that serve vulnerable people.
The newest councilmember, Eddie Lin, described an incident in his 20s when a cop in St. Paul, Minnesota “ended up putting his hands around my throat while I was handcuffed in the back of the police car and threatening me” after he refused to give up the name of a drunk and disorderly friend who had escaped arrest. After driving him around town for half an hour and “continuing to tell me how they were going to ruin my life,” the officer threw Lin in jail, where he said he stayed “for several nights.” Later, he got pulled over by the same cop and was terrified the same thing would happen again.
“There’s one harm when misconduct occurs,” Lin said. “There’s another harm, which is just as serious, when that misconduct does not get addressed. And if we really want to move toward a more positive relationship between community and the police, toward a comprehensive approach, toward public safety, accountability has to be our priority.”
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Lin also noted that the contract includes no mention of the department’s purported goal of having a recruit class that is 30 percent women by 2030. In 2025, less than 10 percent of SPD’s new hires have been women, and the department never bothered to fill a position that was supposed to help with this goal.
Alexis Mercedes Rinck also voted against the contract, saying the agreement fails to include meaningful accountability provisions that our community has demanding, has been demanding for years. … In short, this contract asks Seattle taxpayers to invest more in policing without requiring more accountability in return, and that’s not a deal I can support.”
Under the new contract, the CARE Team, a group of social workers who respond to calls that don’t require an armed police response,,will be allowed to dispatch without police officers present, a change Mayor Bruce Harrell and many council members have touted as a significant win. (The CARE Department, which includes the 911 call center, is a part of the SPOG contract because, according to SPOG, their work impacts police officers’ working conditions and therefore must be approved by the guild.)
But as PubliCola reported in October, the deal with CARE effectively prohibits them from responding to most crisis calls, forcing them to call police instead of responding if they see any drugs or drug paraphernalia, such as foil; if the person in crisis is anywhere besides a public sidewalk or public building, such as a library; or if the person is in a homeless encampment, among a long list of restrictions.
CARE Department Chief Amy Barden told PubliCola she’s “happy that the process has concluded” and hopeful that police sergeants will voluntarily refer calls to CARE, as she said they did in 2023 and 2024. “If we return to the level of collaboration that we had for so long, then the contract will not be nearly as restrictive to the work,” Barden said.
But relying on police to voluntarily work with CARE is different than allowing CARE team members to use their judgment and discretion, Barden added. “The neighbors that I’m most interested in helping are people who are struggling with substance use and people who are unsheltered, and those two populations are named specifically in the exclusionary criteria, so that’s a problem.”
She also criticized the prohibition on responding to crises in non-public spaces, such as businesses, comparing it to a medical response. “If somebody’s having a stroke in the lobby of a business, versus a public space, it doesn’t make it not a stroke. If it’s happening in the city of Seattle, there should be a team who goes to that event regardless of location.”
The agreement resolves some grievances between the city and SPOG by cutting additional checks to cops who worked at various special events, such as Seahawks games, in the past; officers who worked at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event in 2022, for example, will receive double their hourly pay plus a full day of vacation, while those who worked at the Seahawks game on October 7, 2021 will get extra pay equal to 10 hours of work. The agreement also provides free parking to 19 additional civilian SPD employees, including the HR unit and a front desk staffer, who work desk jobs at police headquarters downtown—a perk most city employees do not receive.
After the three councilmembers who opposed the contract spoke, Councilmember Dan Strauss began to justify voting yes on the contract, saying it was the only way to “move accountability forward” and allow CARE to assist more people. As a group of people who had testified against the contract earlier began to boo and shout, calling Strauss “complicit in the murders” of people like Christian Nelson, who was shot and killed by SPD officers near the Othello light rail station last week, the council moved quickly to vote, curtailing further speeches. While most of the council left to meet from their offices, Lin, Strauss, and Rinck remained at the dais, their expressions ranging from pained (Rinck) to detached (Strauss) as the crowd chanted “knees off our necks,” “jail killer cops,” and “shame!”
The contract now heads to Mayor Bruce Harrell’s desk.
Police Chief Shon Barnes speaks at a press conference.
1. Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes expanded the police chief’s office and command staff earlier this year, adding a second deputy chief, a chief of staff, an assistant chief, an Executive Director of Crime and Community Harm Reduction, and a Chief Communications Officer, each earning between $222,000 and $302,000 a year.
Given that extensive restructure, PubliCola was surprised to learn about a separate, $100,000 contract SPD signed earlier this year to “conduct a leadership and positional inventory to review the structure, responsibilities, and operational effectiveness of executive roles within the Office of the Chief to enhance accountability, efficiency, and strategic alignment across SPD’s leadership team.”
The contractor, Public Sector Search and Consulting, previously led the national search for a new Seattle police chief in 2022, making $75,000 for a process that led to the appointment of then-SPD lieutenant Adrian Diaz. The following year, Peterson received $150,000 to conduct a second national search for an assistant chief and deputy chief in 2023; that search, too, concluded with the promotion of two internal candidates.
By the end of 2025, Public Sector Search and Consulting is supposed to produce a report on what each person on command staff does and how their work might be streamlined “to enhance efficiency”; a comparison of command-staff responsibilities between Seattle and similar-size cities, and “recommendations for leadership development that includes a succession planning framework to ensure long-term leadership stability and a recommendation to improve leadership training and mentorship programs.”
A spokesperson for SPD responded to PubliCola’s detailed questions with a statement saying the new contract is necessary “to ensure accountability, efficiency, and efficacy, and to allow for continuous improvement. … In keeping with his desire for feedback, Chief Shon Barnes values outside perspectives that are usually unbiased.”
2. Multiple sources have confirmed that incoming Mayor Katie Wilson has not decided yet whether to keep Barnes, who was directly appointed by Bruce Harrell without the usual public process, or find a new police chief. (The city council rubber-stamped Barnes’ appointment in July). In recent weeks, Barnes’ supporters have reportedly been engaged in an all-out lobbying effort, including a letter-writing campaign, aimed at Wilson’s transition team—which includes multiple people who are pushing Wilson to oust Harrell’s pick.
Barnes has come under internal and external scrutiny for some of his high-profile actions, which included firing SPD’s top two civilian staffers, accepting hiring and recruitment bonuses meant to boost the number of deployable rank-and-file officers, and appointing a captain infamous for driving his SUV onto a sidewalk filled with protesters to head up Capitol Hill’s East Precinct. As chief, Barnes has emphasized strategies he deployed in Madison, such as “stratified policing” (focusing on crime “hot spots” and putting more resources into more serious crimes) and “Seattle-centric policing” (like “Madison-centric policing,” but for Seattle).
Before coming to Seattle, he told an interviewer in Madison that God was sending him to be a “blessing to others” outside Wisconsin and “extending” the prayer he had previously granted when Barnes became Madison police chief in 2020.
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3, SPD hired another consultant—North Carolina-based Tufano Media—to do a three-day “command-level media training” for SPD command and executive-level staff in January. According to a memo about the event, the training will focus on “strengthening the department’s communication strategy, improving media engagement, and preparing leadership to effectively communicate, both internally and externally.”
The lessons will cover topics like the “Anatomy of an effective press briefing,” “Advanced presence and tone control,” and “Strategies for managing hostile or misleading questions,” according to the overview.
SPD’s media relations department did not respond to PubliCola’s detailed questions about their media relations training, including how much the training will cost the city, how Tufano’s firm was chosen, or why the department is paying for command and executive staff to attend a media training so soon after a similar series of media trainings for command and executive staff just last year.
Instead, they provided a statement describing the trainings as a move toward transparency: “The Seattle Police Department believes that the public has a right to know what is happening in their city when it comes to public safety. Given leadership changes during 2025, we are preparing our current Command staff to be trained by a national expert. Speaking to the public through Seattle’s media is an important skill and one that doesn’t come easy to everyone, which is why Chief Barnes is providing people with training and practice.”
No overtime for property crime investigations through the end of the year, according to internal memo.
By Erica C. Barnett
The Seattle Police Department is running so far over its overtime budget this year that officers have been barred from taking overtime except “to respond to urgent life safety events, address chronic public safety issues, or meet time sensitive administrative, contractual, or legal requirements (e.g., court appearances),” according to a November 18 memo.
“SPD must drastically reduce its overtime usage and costs in the remaining weeks of the year to address a projected budget overrun,” the memo reads. “To that end, ALL overtime usage must be pre-approved at the Assistant Chief / Executive Director level, including overtime in authorized categories.” (Emphasis in original).
For the rest of the year, according to the memo, SPD will not fund overtime for property crime investigations, including burglary and theft—effectively deprioritizing property crimes through the end of 2025. Police also can’t use overtime to investigate nonviolent drug crimes, attend community meetings, or work at the Real-Time Crime Center, among many other types of work for which officers routinely rack up overtime hours.
Other types of overtime—from homicide investigations to parking enforcement—will have to be approved directly by a member of Barnes’ command staff.
It’s unclear how SPD ended up spending down its overtime budget so much faster than planned.
SPD’s media relations team, headed by Chief Communications Officer Barbara DeLollis, did not respond to detailed questions about the directive sent last week.
SPD routinely overshoots the overtime budget it receives from the city. The 2025 city budget included an additional $12.8 million for overtime, bringing SPD’s overtime budget to more than $53 million. That’s about $8 million more than the city spends on the entire Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) team, a group of social workers who are authorized to respond to a limited number of 911 calls that don’t require police.
The extra overtime money still fell short, and even with an anticipated fundingboost from Mayor Bruce Harrell’s final supplemental budget, SPD was already planning to “absorb” 11,000 extra hours—about $1.2 million—by “repurposing unused funding from other parts of the budget,” according to a budget memo.
All those extra hours didn’t just go to patrol and crime investigations. Officers get paid overtime, plus a $225 premium, for working at special events and directing traffic outside sports stadiums—work that doesn’t need to be done by cops, but is guaranteed in their contract.
At a public budget meeting in September, Police Chief Shon Barnes defended SPD’s use of overtime, saying it was conceivable that the department will need less overtime in the future, as more new officers are hired and trained, “but because we’re in a very busy city, we do have a lot of special projects and priorities that we’re, quite frankly, trying to manage, and most of them today we are managing with overtime. … And it does take time… at best, a year before an officer, or maybe two years, before that [new] officer has fully realized [their] potential.”
Next year’s SPD budget actually assumes police will use less overtime—450,000 hours—than in previous years. A budget memo earlier this year noted that this was probably an unrealistic goal, given SPD’s tendency to use more overtime than it initially requests, and noted that if SPD continues to use its typical amount of overtime, the department will run up a $5.5 million deficit.
The city council, which includes several members who promised to “audit the budget” for waste when they ran in 2023, passed an amendment requiring SPD to include overtime data in its quarterly hiring reports “when available.”
1. Some quick math on the latest ballot drop from King County Elections, which included another 56,118 votes in the Seattle mayor’s race:
Katie Wilson narrowed the gap with Mayor Bruce Harrell, who’s now leading 50.74 to 48.86 percent, to 4,300 votes, compared to around 10,000 in the previous (Thursday) count.
In this batch, Wilson increased her showing from 51 percent to almost 55 percent of the vote—exactly the percentage she needed of all outstanding ballots as of Thursday. That means that if she can maintain or gain on that percentage in the final rounds of ballot counting, she can win.
Historically, late ballots tend to be very progressive. (They also tend to be in by now, but the count has been delayed slightly this year because two-thirds of King County voters used ballot drop boxes rather than the mail, heeding warnings that the US Postal Service would not guarantee that ballots received on Election Day would be postmarked on time for them to count.)
At the same time, there are a still a few reasons for caution. First, Harrell and the business-backed PAC working on his behalf hit Wilson hard on experience in the final days of the campaign, which appears to have dampened some of Wilson’s support. (She ended the primary above 50 percent with several more people in the race).
Second, late ballots can be somewhat unpredictable. If the ballot boxes that remain uncounted are from more conservative areas, like Magnolia, they’ll move the final tally in Harrell’s direction regardless of the truism that late voters pick progressive candidates.
Bottom line: It’s still anybody’s guess, so try not to think about it until Monday, when the county will announce the next big batch of results.
2. Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes announced yesterday that he’s reassigning Michael Tietjen, the recently promoted captain who became commander of Capitol Hill’s East Precinct in September, and appointing Captain Jim Britt as head of that precinct.
Barnes, previously the police chief in Madison, Wisconsin, reportedly reprimanded SPD staff for not letting him know promoting Tietjen and putting him in the heart of Capitol Hill might cause a backlash. (PubliCola broke the news about Tietjen’s appointment last month). Tietjen has been at the center of several high-profile controversies, going back to 2007, when he and a partner were accused of planting drugs on a man in a wheelchair.
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In 2020, Tietjen was suspended after driving his SUV onto a sidewalk filled with people and mocking them as “cockroaches,” as well as a separate incident in which he threw a protester against a bus stop, injuring them. He also failed to report officers’ alleged harassment of a trans woman during the same period, according to an Office of Police Accountability investigation.
SPD did not respond to detailed questions about Tietjen’s reassignment PubliCola asked on Tuesday. Instead, they announced Britt’s assignment on SPD’s website on Thursday, describing Tietjen’s “recent assignment” in passive voice and saying Barnes took action as soon as he learned about Tietjen’s history. In reality, Barnes announced plans to reassign Tietjen in an internal announcement, also reported exclusively by PubliCola, that blamed our story and “internal leaks” for creating “a crisis of confidence among our LGBTQIA+ community members.” Then he left Tietjen in charge for a month.
Tietjen is reportedly moving to the department’s Internet Crimes Against Children/High-Risk Victims unit.
If the new commander of the East Precinct’s name name sounds familiar, that’s because Captain Britt has been
of the city’s Real Time Crime Center, a facility at SPD headquarters where police monitor the new CCTV cameras the city is installing in neighborhoods across Seattle. Britt has been the face of the RTCC, so his reassignment after just a few months leaves a void.
Barnes also announced that East Precinct patrol officer Haden Barton will be SPD’s new LGBTQ+ liaison, a position that has gone unfilled for months after the reassignment of the previous liaison, Doran Koreio.
3. If Tietjen is now in charge of the high-risk victims unit, he’ll be overseeing a program SPD announced last week in which detectives stake out and photograph the cars of men paying for sex on Aurora Ave. N, trace their license plates, and send “Dear John” letters to their homes. The idea is that shaming men and provoking fights with their partners will reduce demand for sex work.
Despite the centuries-long history of shaming as a demand reduction strategy, there’s little to no evidence that it works as a deterrent or decreases the demand for sex work (though there is evidence that it pushes some street-based sex workers to move online). Advocates who work against sex trafficking have argued that “john shaming” harms sex workers and destabilizes the families of the men who end up on “john lists” or receive letters from police at home, with little to no impact on sex trafficking, usually the ostensible purpose of such campaigns.
Deputy city attorney Scott Lindsay, a former public safety advisor to ex-mayor Ed Murray, has been trying to get SPD to adopt the “Dear John” program for years, but was rebuffed by previous police chiefs. (Lindsay’s boss, Republican city attorney Ann Davison, just lost her bid for reeelection).
Mayor Bruce Harrell’s office told PubliCola he supports the program. “’John Letter’” programs have been adopted in roughly 100 cities across the United States, including San Francisco last year, and are endorsed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation as a best practice in addressing commercial sexual exploitation,” a spokesperson for the mayor said. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, a national Christian fundamentalist group previously known as Morality in Media, campaigns against pornography, sex work, comprehensive sex education, sex shops, same-sex marriage, among other right-wing crusades.
Expense records PubliCola has reviewed show that Hunt stayed in a room that cost between $221 and $293 a night between May 7 and June 7 of this year. The total cost to the city for the long-term hotel stay, according to an itemized receipt, was $6,330.
