May 2026 · Enforcement
More citation data received; enforcement page updated
A new public records request (C263949) extended Seattle's off-leash citation record through April 2026. Combined with the earlier data, the enforcement page now covers a continuous 2014–2026 record and was restructured to lead with the fiscal picture: cost per citation, output over time, the first-offense mix, and geography.
Two things stand out: citation output peaked in 2018 (1,276) and has not recovered — the strongest year since is 2024 (447), about a third of peak — and the program's cost per published citation (its annual cost divided by citations issued, not the price of writing one ticket) has risen even as output fell. First-time offenders remain 84–96% of citations in every year of the record.
Where 2019 appears in both requests, the fuller C263949 record is used. Every figure on the page is reproducible from committed scripts and checked by a verification harness that now also greps the published prose against the data.
→ enforcement.html · Finding 01
April 2026 · Site launch (v1.0.0)
First complete public release
Eight-page public-data reference on Seattle's off-leash area (OLA) system: overview, Part I (The Gap), Part II (Access), Part III (Forward), Enforcement, Budget, Peer Cities, and the signed Opinion editorial. Every factual claim links back to its source; the underlying dataset pipeline is reproducible from committed scripts.
Network walkshed methodology landed as part of v1.0. The earlier ~33% straight-line walkshed estimate was replaced with a proper network-distance analysis: 11.7% of Seattle residents are within a 10-minute walking path of an OLA (76.6% within Seattle Parks & Recreation's [SPR] 2.5-mile standard). Computed via compute_walkshed.py (osmnx against Seattle's OSM walk network) and population_coverage.py (2020 Census block-group overlay).
Enforcement page shipped with the full PRR C049204 dataset (4,803 citations, 2014–2019), hotspot map, walkshed-overlap analysis, top-20 table, offense-mix breakdown, and revenue-vs-cost chart against the 2021 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)'s documented $152,399/yr Animal Control Officer II (ACO II) cost.
Peer Cities page shipped with detail sections on Portland, San Francisco, Vancouver BC, Washington DC, Minneapolis, NYC, Austin, and Boise.
→ index.html · full v1.0 details in the CHANGELOG
