This post is part five of the “From the Archives” blog series, a 12-part series exploring how the Seattle Municipal Court’s (SMC) work, people and spaces have evolved over time. This post looks at how SMC’s community and therapeutic courts have evolved over time, shaped by trial and error, deep collaboration,… [ Keep reading ]
In 2018, Seattle Municipal Court (SMC) entered a multi-year, multi-discipline and multi-agency collaboration and research study with a common purpose: to prevent domestic violence and improve safety for survivors by providing individualized, state-certified better intervention for domestic violence perpetrators charged in SMC. The court calls it the Domestic Violence Intervention… [ Keep reading ]
Today, Seattle Municipal Court wraps up its series “Who’s Who at SMC” that has been introducing you to the people behind the scenes who make the day-to-day interactions at the court function. Our final person for you to meet is Margaret McCurdy, a therapeutic courts coordinator for the court. In this… [ Keep reading ]
