Sydney Brownstone
Reporter, Lost Patients
About
Sydney Brownstone is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times. She previously covered homelessness in Seattle and was a Livingston Award finalist for her work on the podcast Outsiders. Brownstone hails from the world of alt-weeklies, where her reporting on sexual assault and sex work prompted the Washington Attorney General’s first-ever consumer protection lawsuit on behalf of sex workers.
Podcasts
Stories
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Seattle head judge asked to step aside in damning letter from city prosecutors and public defenders
In a rare show of agreement, both Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and Anita Khandelwal, director of the King County Department of Defense, are asking Seattle Municipal Court Presiding Judge Ed McKenna to step down.
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A homeless man steals clothes from a Seattle Goodwill, goes to jail. His story isn’t unusual
Seattle charges people for stealing from Goodwill more than any other retailer. Almost one in three are homeless.
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Sexual abuse laws poised for massive changes in Washington state
State lawmakers on Tuesday voted unanimously to make changes sexual abuse laws that advocates have been demanding for decades. The biggest: Going forward, there will be no statute of limitations for people who survived sexual abuse when they were under 16.
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Boeing cuts down production of 737 Max as crash investigations continue
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg announced on Friday that his company would be cutting its production of the problem-plagued 737 Max planes.
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Microsoft emails detail sexual harassment and discrimination – prompting Satya Nadella response
An internal email chain at Microsoft detailing women’s allegations of workplace sexual harassment and discrimination, first reported by Quartz on Thursday, has continued to grow and prompt responses from senior leadership, according to more than 90 pages of emails reviewed by KUOW.
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70 percent of people who die in Washington and Oregon jails are still innocent by law
When Jeremy Lavender came back from a 15-month Army deployment in Iraq to live with his wife and new baby, “he wasn’t the same person,” according to...
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70 percent of people who died in Washington and Oregon jails hadn't been convicted
When Jeremy Lavender came back from a 15-month Army deployment in Iraq to live with his wife and new baby, “he wasn’t the same person,” according to Lavender’s ex-wife, Myra Shearer.
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Booked and buried: Northwest jails' mounting death toll
Since 2008, at least 306 people across the Northwest have died after being taken to a county jail, according to an investigation by OPB, KUOW and the Northwest News Network.
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Lake City shooting suspect told police he had no memory after blacking out from drinking earlier in the day
Lake City shooting suspect Tad-Michael Norman told police he had no memory of what transpired after he drank and played video games the afternoon of a deadly carjacking and shooting spree, according to a charging document filed by police.
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Father of man shot by Seattle police on New Year's Eve sues the city
Mane Faletogo, the father of the 36-year-old man who was shot by a Seattle police officer after a traffic stop on New Year's Eve, is suing the city of Seattle and the officer who shot him for the loss of his son.
