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FEBRUARY 17, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 7
Improving safety at businesses Coalition aims to lower crime in Queen Anne
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
In response to a noticeable uptick in criminal and nuisance activity in Queen Anne, merchants and residents have formed a new coalition that aims to tackle those issues. “Queen Anne Together” is a fledgling collaboration of merchants and community organizations that was launched in January with its aim to improve public safety and reduce crime throughout the neighborhood. The effort was spearheaded in part by Debe Franz, owner of A Bit of Taste — Queen Anne Olive Oil Company, who felt compelled to do something after a series of events made it clear to her that something needed to be done at the community level to address these issues. “This isn’t just a business problem. This is a neighborhood problem. This is an everyone problem,” Franz said. Franz said her first “watershed moment” of recognizing
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Photo by Jessica Keller Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz, right, listens to Queen Anne 711 owner Chaz Maroun Diaz during a tour of Queen Anne in late January. The tour was arranged by Queen Anne Community Council Public Safety Committee Chairman Bob Kettle so Diaz could hear from merchants about how they have been impacted by criminal activity. Concerns about crime and public safety at Queen Anne businesses has also prompted a collaboration among community stakeholders to address those issues. Queen Anne businesses were at risk happened in 2019 when she learned someone stole $25,000 in
merchandise from Queen Anne Dispatch during a break-in and robbery. Slowly, more reports of
incidents via a business Instagram
SEE BUSINESS, PAGE 5
State senate aims to strengthen cybersecurity after data hack By Ruairi Vaughan Contributing writer
The Washington state Legislature is considering a bill that would centralize the state’s response to cybersecurity threats and strengthen the government’s ability to protect residents’ online data. Senate Bill 5432 was introduced by state Sen. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, on Feb. 8. It proposes the establishment of an Office of Cybersecurity within
the Consolidated Technology Services Agency, also known as WaTech. WaTech serves as the internet technology provider and procurer for state agencies and manages a large amount of private information for Washington’s 7.6 million residents — information such as names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. The proposed Office of Cybersecurity would be the state’s point of contact for policy on data privacy and data protection, and would be in charge of investigating all major cybersecurity-related incidents
and determining the seriousness of each event. SB 5432 comes as a response to a massive data breach in December of last year that may have exposed as many as 1.6 million Washingtonians’ personal private data. The hackers targeted Accellion, a California-based software company that contracts with the Washington State Auditor’s Office. After Accellion announced the breach this January, the State Auditor’s Office warned that the affected information included the personal information of everyone
who filed for unemployment least year, as well as a smaller number of people associated with the state’s Department of Children, Youth and Families. The State Auditor’s Office has reached out to everyone affected by the breach. Carlyle was asked about the data breach during a constituent town hall, which was streamed on Facebook live, on Feb. 4. He assured the questioner that he was in the process of putting together legislation to address the issue; SB
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