Andrea Suarez, the founder of We Heart Seattle, just wanted to help clean up Seattle and make it a safer place to live. According to their website, the organization has cleaned up over 2,100,000 pounds of trash from parks and shared spaces including dangerous discarded drug paraphernalia distributed through city and county harm reduction programs.
Suarez told Fox News Digital, “One of the biggest advocacy work I have done is that I go to the needle exchange and I get what they call the ‘party kit,’ and I demonstrated that our King County ‘Health’ Department is handing out cookers and tourniquets and glass pipes and paraphernalia to do drugs.”
“I was referring to this ‘party kit’ as a ‘suicide kit’ with very little, if no information on where to get medical detox.”
Now, the group is now facing a state workplace-safety investigation over the way its volunteers pick up and dispose of used hypodermic needles and fentanyl foil which Suarez “says is its first government probe.”
Suarez told The Center Square, “We received the notice through an email. I sent it to my board of directors. I talked to an attorney. Kind of scary, right? You get this letter demanding all these forms. We, of course, asked for an extension.”
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