Policy Tracker

Limits the use of administrative segregation in state prisons and establishes due process rights for incarcerated people facing disciplinary proceedings.

ans the most harmful physical restraint practices in schools and creates new parental notification and OSPI oversight requirements for any use of isolation or restraint.

Requires online platforms to apply child-protective defaults for minors, bans algorithmic feeds for known minor users, and restricts push notifications during school hours and late at night.

Requires websites where more than one-third of content is sexual material harmful to minors to verify users are 18 or older before granting access.

Shields Washington state financial aid application data from public disclosure and bars agencies — including federal authorities — from accessing it without a court order.

Restructures mandatory expulsion for students with firearm violations to allow case-by-case administrative review and strengthens reengagement requirements.

Strengthens Washington's protections for unhoused students, guaranteeing immediate enrollment, barrier-free school access, and district liaisons to support continuity of education.

Expands Washington's juvenile diversion system, extends eligibility to age 21, eliminates the parental veto on diversion participation, wipes completed diversions from criminal history, and creates a state grant program for community-based diversion providers.

Initiative to restore parental rights provisions in public schools — including curriculum review, notification rights, and opt-out from sexual health education — that the 2025 legislature modified after initial passage.

Initiative that would prohibit transgender students from participating in school athletic activities designated for female students at K-12 schools in Washington.

Narrows school districts' liability under the Washington Law Against Discrimination by requiring proof of district negligence, shielding districts from automatic liability for employee misconduct.

Prohibits automated systems from making student discipline decisions and bans facial recognition, risk scoring, and biometric surveillance in public schools.

Creates infrastructure and a public data dashboard to align Washington's fragmented pre-kindergarten through workforce education systems and improve outcomes tracking for underserved students.