Iwholeheartedly agree with Karin Renaud’s letter ( “Supporting license plate readers is a grave error,” published Aug. 13) regarding the city counsel’s flawed decision to sign a contract to collect driver’s license plate information while in Enumclaw. The first I heard about it was the Courier-Herald’s article published Aug. 6, reporting on the July 28th council meeting. One week later, this paper reports the Council is moving ahead on contracting for the cameras.

A two minute search asking for crime statistics for Washington cities returned the information that, in 2019, Enumclaw had the distinction of being the fifth-safest city in the State, out of 281 total. So far, in 2025, we are holding at 19th place, which is odd since crimes are a backward-looking statistic and I am writing t

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