Seattle Initiative 75 passed by 58% of Seattle voters in September 2003, created an eleven member panel to monitor the effects of the
initiative. Panel members were appointed by the Council President in 2003 and the first meeting was held Wednesday, February 25, 2004.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization devoted to protecting the basic civil liberties of all Americans, and extending them to groups that have traditionally been denied their basic civil rights. Learn more about the ACLU of Washington's work protecting fundamental rights within the criminal justice system, the drug war, and police practices.

The Defender Association has 92 attorneys representing more than 14,000 clients per year in felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, family advocacy, and civil commitment cases, as well as a number of appeals at all levels of the state courts.

The Defender Association received in 1999 a $146,000 grant from the Justice Department to establish a Racial Disparity Project

The King County Bar Association Drug Policy Project is leading a high-level partnership of lawyers, doctors, pharmacists and other professionals in Washington to find more effective ways to reduce the harm and costs of drug abuse, and of the “War on Drugs” itself. What began over three years ago as a transitory study of current drug laws has evolved into a comprehensive, long-term effort to bring about meaningful reform of drug policy on many levels.

Working to end drug war injustice, the November Coalition, a non-profit grassroots organization, was founded in 1997. Members educate the public about destructive, unnecessary incarceration due to the U.S. drug war.