Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said Wednesday that he expects a new proposal on a drug possession law to be back in front of the city council in the coming weeks.
A person openly smokes a narcotic on a street in Seattle.
In a 5-4 vote Tuesday, Seattle City Council rejected a bill that would have made possessing and knowingly using illegal drugs in public a gross misdemeanor. The bill would have also given the city attorney the authority to prosecute drug possession and public use drug cases.
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