Drafter
Clerk 04/05/2012
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to the establishment of anti-criminal street gang emphasis areas; adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 12 and prescribing penalties.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Criminal street gangs and the gang-related crimes they commit endanger the physical safety, negatively affect the economic vitality and reduce the right to full enjoyment of liberty and property rights of the people of King County.
2. Government has a responsibility to provide for the physical safety, liberty and property rights of its citizens.
3. King County has established antiprostitution emphasis areas and drug-free zones to address illegal prostitution and illegal drug activities.
4. The state of Washington has not enacted legislation related to establishment of anti-criminal street gang emphasis areas. Accordingly, in the exercise its general police powers, the county prohibits herein an identified gang member from entering a designated area in violation of court-imposed conditions of release or conditions of suspension or deferral of any sentence.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Sections 2 through 4 of this ordinance should constitute a new chapter in K.C.C. Title 12.
NEW SECTION. SECTION 2. The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "Anti-criminal street gang emphasis area" means an area, approved by ordinance, that has been identified by law enforcement through a history of arrests and observation to be locales where criminal street gang activity, or criminal street gang-related offenses confirms a pattern of endangering physical safety, liberty or property rights of its citizens. "Anti-criminal street gang emphasis area" is not intended to preclude an individual from accessing his or her established place of residence or employment or school or in circumstances where it would otherwise be infeasible.
B. "Criminal street gang" mean...

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