King County - File #: 2007-0481

• File #: 2007-0481
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/17/2007
• In control: Law, Justice and Human Services Committee
• On agenda: 10/22/2007
• Final action: 10/22/2007
• Enactment date: 11/2/2007
• Enactment #: 15939
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to reorganization of the department of public safety; amending Ordinance 1438, Section 3(c), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.060 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 3.16.
• Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Kathy Lambert, Bob Ferguson, Julia Patterson, Larry Gossett, Jane Hague, Reagan Dunn, Pete von Reichbauer, Dow Constantine
• Indexes: Public Safety, Reorganization
• Code sections: 2.16.060 -
• Staff: Curry, Clifton

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/22/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
10/22/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
10/15/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Deferred
10/1/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
10/1/2007	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Deferred
9/20/2007	2	Law, Justice and Human Services Committee	Passed Out of Committee Without a Recommendation	Pass
9/17/2007	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 09/24/2007
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AN ORDINANCE relating to reorganization of the department of public safety; amending Ordinance 1438, Section 3(c), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.060 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 3.16.
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PREAMBLE:
State law allows a sheriff with a staff of five hundred one or more employees to have ten positions designated as unclassified service or exempt from the civil service system.
By the power granted in RCW 41.14.070(4), the county legislative authority may grant a sheriff up to twenty additional unclassified positions.
The King County sheriff's office currently has fourteen unclassified positions, which are exempt from the state civil service system for county sheriff's employees.
The positions of communications director, sheriff's aide and the chief of a newly proposed professional standards division in the sheriff's office have a close and confidential relationship with the sheriff. While these positions are typically exempt from civil service rules, and fall within the type of positions that can be exempt from state civil service, they are not currently included in the positions designated by King County as unclassified and exempt from civil service rules.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 1438, Section 3(c), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.060 are each hereby amended as follows:
A. The department of public safety, as identified in the Section 350.20.40 King County Charter, and managed by the King County sheriff, may also be known and cited in the King County Code and in other usage as the office of the sheriff. Employees managed by the King County sheriff may be referred to in the King County Code or otherwise, as King County police, King County officer, or deputy sheriff.
B. The department of public safety is responsible to keep and preserve the public peace and safety including the discharge of all duties of the office of sheriff under State law, except those duties rel...