King County is struggling due to a constitutional requirement that unlawful detainer cases must be heard by a constitutional commissioner.
Exterior of Jason Roth's rental property in Madison Valley, the subject of an unlawful detainer case in Washington.
Roth was informed that a backlog of unlawful detainer cases in King County is pushing his court date back by six to eight months. “This is where our system is broken,” Democrat Senator Mark Mullet , who is also running for governor, said. “We have 39 counties; some have 40,000 people, and some, like King County, have 2.3 million people — they all have a three-commissioner limit. We need to change the constitution.”“It might have made sense in 1889, but King County has a third of the state’s population,” Dunn said. “Three commissioners just aren’t going to get it done.
Additionally, state legislators have assigned more duties to constitutional commissioners, including cases regarding guardianship, right to counsel and domestic violence protection orders., sponsored by Mullet, proposed authorizing “statutory commissioners” to hear unlawful detainer cases and included $5.25 million to fund these positions. However, it was defeated due to additional requirements for income limits on state-funded legal representation in evictions.
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