13 agencies with two or more cases
By agency.
Some agencies show up once. Some show up over and over. This page is the latter list.
- Seattle Public Schools · SPS7 casesWashington's largest school district. Cases in the registry document a multi-year structural deficit, unresolved federal Every Child Family Foundation findings, civil rights litigation, and several school-level incidents that produced settlements or open audit findings.
- King County Department of Community and Human Services · KC DCHS6 casesKing County's main social-services department, responsible for behavioral health, homelessness response, veterans' programs, and adult and juvenile justice services. Subject of an ombuds investigation, a Clark Nuber forensic audit, and recurring questions about subrecipient monitoring of nonprofit contractors.
- Washington State Department of Corrections · DOC5 casesOperates the state prison system. The registry tracks Office of the Corrections Ombuds findings on solitary confinement, use of force at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, unexpected-fatality reviews, and the federal CRIPA investigation underway at WCCW.
- Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families · DCYF5 casesCombined child welfare, early learning, and juvenile rehabilitation agency created in 2017. Registry cases include the Oakley Carlson fatality review, multiple Office of the Family and Children's Ombuds annual findings, and federal payment-compliance issues raised by the Single Audit.
- Washington State Department of Social and Health Services · DSHS5 casesOperates programs serving people with developmental disabilities, behavioral-health patients, vulnerable adults, and seniors in residential care. Registry cases cover Trueblood contempt, Special Commitment Center facility conditions, Developmental Disabilities Administration ombuds findings, and adult family home oversight failures flagged by HHS-OIG.
- Office of the Corrections Ombuds · OCO4 casesIndependent oversight office that investigates complaints and publishes statutory reports on conditions in Washington state prisons. The registry mirrors OCO findings rather than evaluating them, because OCO is itself the primary-source investigator on most DOC cases here.
- City of Seattle · Seattle4 casesSeattle municipal government across departments. Registry cases reference the SAO accountability audit and the gun-violence prevention audit. Department-specific cases are tagged separately under SPD, SPS, and the Mayor's Office.
- Washington State Patrol · WSP3 casesStatewide law enforcement agency. Recent cases in the registry document three Public Records Act matters across roughly 18 months (one alleging actual records destruction tied to the 2021 COVID vaccine-mandate terminations; two alleging withholding/delay), totaling roughly $548,000 in settlements and court-ordered fines.
- Washington State Department of Commerce · Commerce2 casesState agency that administers federal pass-through grants and several economic-development programs. Registry cases focus on COVID-relief questioned costs and the Digital Navigator subrecipient audit.
- Office of the Family and Children's Ombuds · OFCO2 casesIndependent ombuds office for DCYF and the broader child welfare system. As with OCO, the registry mirrors OFCO findings rather than re-investigating them, because OFCO is the primary-source investigator on the child-welfare cases.
- Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction · OSPI2 casesState agency overseeing K-12 public schools. Registry cases include the IDEA settlement involving a non-disabled-student plaintiff and longstanding deficiencies in the school-funding apportionment IT system.
- Port of Seattle · Port2 casesOperates Sea-Tac Airport and Port of Seattle marine facilities. Registry cases include the Rhysida ransomware breach and a passenger-facility-charge fraud matter.
- Sound Transit · ST2 casesRegional transit authority covering Pierce, King, and Snohomish counties. Registry cases focus on ST3 program-reset cost growth, West Seattle Link cost escalation, and the board's CEO selection process and conflict exposure.