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Jul 01, 2025 | Source: Northwest Asian Weekly
“The Board’s decision not to intervene clarifies what we already knew to be true: Governor Ferguson has the sole authority to use his pardon to bring Tuan home,” said University of Washington law professor Angélica Cházaro, Phan’s attorney. “The stakes couldn’t be higher, and we are running out of time to save Tuan from a punishment no person deserves.”
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Jun 27, 2025 | Source: The Seattle Times
The family of a man who grew up in Tacoma and has become one of the faces of President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport immigrants to countries where they have no ties is urging Gov. Bob Ferguson to intervene. Angélica Cházaro, professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Oct 03, 2024 | Source: YES! Magazine
What would a progressive vision of racial justice and policing look like? There has been for decades an active movement to divest from policing with an eye toward abolishing police and prisons altogether. Angélica Cházaro, professor of law at the University of Washington has been active in that movement, working with various groups and campaigns in Seattle including La Resistencia, No New Youth Jail, Decriminalize Seattle, and Solidarity Budget. She spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about what an abolitionist vision of racial justice looks like.
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Jul 07, 2023 | Source: The Stranger
People should remember the example of three police officers moving one man in a tent when the cops appear before the Seattle City Council soon to request more dollars for police overtime, said Angélica Cházaro, an assistant professor at the University of Â鶹ÉçÇø of Law and organizer with Decriminalize Seattle.
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Jun 05, 2023 | Source: South Seattle Emerald
The Seattle City Council on Tuesday will discuss and possibly vote on an ordinance "relating to the possession and public use of controlled substances.” The vote will determine if the provisions introduced in a new state law will be adopted into Seattle Municipal Code, giving the City Attorney’s Office jurisdiction to prosecute cases of known possession or use of illegal or controlled substances. The Â鶹ÉçÇø's Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law, and Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, a researcher at the Â鶹ÉçÇø School of Medicine, are quoted.
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Mar 21, 2023 | Source: Seattle Met
Conversation from the BLM protests in 2020 inspired Travonna Thompson-Wiley and others to form the Black Action Coalition. Group members started weekly marches. Then, when they joined daily demonstrations backed by more experienced activists like Nikkita Oliver, Thompson-Wiley heard a cacophony of outrage finally coalesce into a chorus of three demands: Free the protesters. Invest in the Black community. Defund the police. But three years since protesters hatched a bold plan to reimagine public safety, Seattle hasn’t sniffed divestment of this magnitude. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Sep 26, 2022 | Source: KNKX
Hundreds of community groups are again weighing in on what they believe the City of Seattle needs to thrive. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is interviewed.
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Mar 31, 2022 | Source: South Seattle Emerald
Each year, the Freedom Scholars awards — done in partnership with Group Health Foundation — provide a one-time $250,000 award to scholars from universities across the U.S. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law, and Megan Ming Francis, an associate professor of political science, at Â鶹ÉçÇø are the focus of this editorial.
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Dec 21, 2021 | Source: Inside Philanthropy
Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø is one of six scholars receiving this year’s Freedom Scholars awards, which were created by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Group Health Foundation. Each of the Freedom Scholars receives a one-time award of $250,000, which they can use as they see fit.
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Nov 23, 2021 | Source: KOMO News
But groups like Decriminalize Seattle praised the budget reduction, saying its time to invest in communities. Angélica Cházaro from Decriminalize Seattle said: “I want to live in a city equipped to address the current and coming crises without resorting to armed cops to protect the rich at the expense of the poor. This is why we demanded a Solidarity Budget, and why we celebrate every penny that leaves harmful policing practices and goes towards building a Seattle where we can all survive and thrive. We now urge Mayor Durkan to sign this budget into law. Our cross-movement coalition helped us secure a defund of SPD two-years in a row, and we’ll be back for more.”
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Nov 23, 2021 | Source: The Associated Press
Angélica Cházaro from Decriminalize Seattle said: “I want to live in a city equipped to address the current and coming crises without resorting to armed cops to protect the rich at the expense of the poor.”
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Nov 17, 2021 | Source: Freedom Dreams podcast
In this episode, we dig into participatory budgeting with Shari Davis, Co-Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project to better understand how an expansion of the democratic process can benefit communities. We also speak with Angelica Chazaro, an organizer with Decriminalize Seattle to discuss Seattle's movement to defund police, as well as PG Watkins, Director of Detroit's Black Bottom Archives, and community organizer about the durational fight for a people's budget in Detroit.
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Nov 15, 2021 | Source: South Seattle Emerald
We know that change in society happens in short bursts,” said Angélica Cházaro, a Decriminalize Seattle organizer and Â鶹ÉçÇø law professor, who spoke at a Solidarity Budget event on Tuesday, Nov. 9.
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Nov 11, 2021 | Source: South Seattle Emerald
“One of the very first laws ever passed in Seattle in 1865 was a municipal ordinance that criminalized the presence of the Duwamish,” Angélica Cházaro, a member of Decriminalize Seattle, said at the presentation. She reminded us how the criminalization of houseless community members is steeped in the racist colonial legacy of the City. “The Duwamish were the first people to be homeless on these lands.”
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Nov 11, 2021 | Source: The Stranger
Cházaro said the progressives are “already winning” considering the SPD budget is still smaller than it was in 2020 and the council proposed even less money than the mayor. She encouraged the meeting attendees to speak at the public hearing to tell the council to “keep up the courage.”
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Oct 28, 2021 | Source: The Stranger
"As Seattle residents who have worked, taught and advocated in the legal community for decades, we care deeply about promoting public safety through systems that actually work. The current City Attorney’s race is bringing the question of what furthers public safety to the forefront of many voters' minds," write the Â鶹ÉçÇø's Kimberly Ambrose, teaching professor of law, and Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law.
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May 21, 2021 | Source: The Seattle Times
Response times by Seattle police spiked amid the pandemic and the summer’s demonstrations for racial justice, reaching a 41-minute monthly average for all calls and an 11-minute monthly average for the highest-priority calls in June. That was four minutes longer than the department’s seven-minute goal for such calls. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Nov 24, 2020 | Source: South Seattle Emerald
After Seattle City Council voted yesterday on the 2021 city budget, partners in the Solidarity Budget coalition hosted a Facebook Live teach-in event to share perspectives and analyses of the close-to-official city budget. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Oct 29, 2020 | Source: Crosscut
“The uprising this summer in defense of Black lives forced a reckoning across the country with racist police violence. Since then, a new consensus has begun to form in Seattle: Past reform efforts have failed to keep Black communities safe from violent policing, while the city has never adequately funded housing, child care, health care or other basic building blocks of safety for Black Seattleites. We must stop pouring hundreds of millions into police budgets and instead begin to divest from policing,” writes Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø.
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Sep 10, 2020 | Source: The Seattle Times
The coalitions King County Equity Now and Decriminalize Seattle — consisting of organizations led by Black, Indigenous and people of color, and individuals ranging from data analysts to community builders and lawyers — have unified under the same mission: to improve conditions on the ground for marginalized communities. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Aug 25, 2020 | Source: Crosscut
Nearly two years after voters approved I-940, training lags, while investigations into police-involved killings face scrutiny. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Aug 11, 2020 | Source: The Daily
“We can’t make an argument that we absolutely need a police department when we actually have two other campuses that don’t have a police department,” panelist and assistant professor of law Angélica Cházaro said.
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Jul 17, 2020 | Source: Crosscut
The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program could be a key piece in creating alternatives to the police. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.
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Jul 13, 2020 | Source: Crosscut
City council members and community groups are pushing for a third way to help people in crisis, which may involve some firefighters.
