The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to repeal two laws over concerns about disproportionate impacts on Black and Indigenous people and other people of color.
The council voted to remove the crime of drug traffic loitering and prostitution loitering from the city's criminal code.
The first ordinance allows officers to arrest people suspected of soliciting drugs in public without evidence drugs are present.
The second allows people suspected of being sex workers to be arrested for loitering.