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Paid for by Latasha for Tacoma Local Solutions. Lasting Stability. A Voice You Can Trust. Latasha Palmer understands firsthand the challenges of navigating broken systems and the powerlessness felt during loved ones’ struggles. When her children lost their father to mental illness, it exposed systemic failures that neglect people of color, children of immigrants, and veterans. With current institutions under threat, Tacoma needs bold local and state leaders. As a holistic security advocate, Latasha is prepared for this challenge, dedicated to economic security, personal safety, housing stability, and climate resilience for all. Housing Security: fighting homelessness, expanding community land trusts, and keeping housing affordable. Personal Security: promoting evidence-based, community-led public safety solutions. Economic Security: supporting small businesses, promoting cooperatives, and ensuring fair wages. Climate Security: championing sustainable industries and protecting communities from environmental harm. Not a career politician but a mother, organizer, and advocate, Latasha is ready to lead Tacoma forward. With your support, she aims to empower communities and secure a better future for all residents. Together, let's make Tacoma the city we deserve!

*All posts are my own and do not represent the positions or opinions of the City of Tacoma. This account is not used for official city business.

11/03/2026

Join me while I work and drink my morning coffee. Have questions? Ask away!

10/30/2026

“It really does feel like an inheritance of something that most of the current council members would agree is a detriment to our city and to our residents,” said Tacoma City Councilmember Latasha Palmer. In past years the city effectively banned the immigrant lockup from expanding.

“If it has to exist, people want it close,” Palmer said. “But they would prefer that it doesn't exist at all.”

Councilmember Sandesh Sadalge said he finds it disheartening that Tacoma is forced to be home to a privately run public facility that is in the business of “civil detention of immigrants.” He said he takes issue with what he sees as the infringement of the constitution under ICE, the DHS, and at the GEO Group owned facility.

“I don’t ever believe that we should have a for-profit business whose model is to incarcerate human beings,” he said. “That should not be a business.”

“I really hope that November 3 there’s a clear message sent to this federal administration,” he said, “that this kind of behavior and the way we’re operating is not acceptable.”

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded the private prisons company GEO Group a $1.5 billion contract to continue running the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

GEO Group’s previous 10-year contract ended last year. The facility, in the Tacoma tideflats, holds 1,635 beds, according to federal records.

The contract renewal, which follows a year of deliberations, comes despite reports of waves of sickness and inconsistent medical care among detainees at the facility, poor water quality, f***s in detainee food, reported allegations of sexual abuse, human right’s violations, and a lack of accountability from the federal government on violations of standards at the facility.

Story: Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez / KUOW
Photo: Ted S. Warren / AP

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10/30/2026

Get that paper Minority & Women owned Businesses!

The workshop is open to all businesses, whether they are in Tacoma or elsewhere in Washington State.

10/30/2026

Supporters say a public bank could help finance affordable housing, small businesses and infrastructure while keeping more money local

10/30/2026

City Council Meeting topics for Tuesday 11/3

10/28/2026

The tally from tonight’s public comments on the City Budget. Thanks for speaking up Tacoma!

10/25/2026

Lots of opportunities to talk about the City's budget proposals at the next City of Tacoma Government Council Meeting!

10/24/2026

If the team is eliminated, [Aleesia] Morales [the program manager] worries that traditional first responders will have fewer options when engaging with community members with mental health or substance use concerns.

“The HOPE Team is a program that the community asked for,” Tacoma City Councilmember Latasha Palmer said in an interview. “I see this service as absolutely necessary. It will leave a big gap if we do end up having to disband the program.”

Tacoma is considering eliminating its HOPE Team, which works to help people in crisis and connect them with longer-term behavioral health services.

10/08/2026

what are we doing? We CAN change things!

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