This is awesome badassery (though I wish they would have sued the city instead):

The Seattle Police Department has admitted it violated the state Public Records Act by withholding from The Seattle Times an internal memorandum about the department’s response to the violent demonstrations of May Day 2012, and has agreed to pay $20,000 to the newspaper and its attorneys to avoid a lawsuit over the issue. ...

The settlement was reached after the newspaper sent a letter to the SPD on May 9, alleging “egregious violations” of the Public Records Act, and demanded that the department acknowledge the violations and instruct staff and administrators that they cannot manipulate the release of public records “to serve other department goals.”

Otherwise, the letter said, The Times would sue and seek penalties and attorneys fees potentially amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Homeless.