From Attorney General cases to domestic violence victims, an exclusive KING 5 Investigation exposes a budget debacle leaving hundreds of cases backlogged.
THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — On a Wednesday afternoon — the busiest time of the week at Thurston County’s family court — a woman hoping to get answers on a restraining order stood at the clerk’s counter, confused and empty-handed.
“Excuse me,” she said to no one in particular. “Is there like, no way we can talk to anybody?”
There wasn’t. The counter was dark. The phones unanswered. And behind that quiet window, a crisis was quietly unfolding, one that has shaken the legal
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