1. Response timeline
Complaint date, classification, assignment, inspection where applicable, findings, notice, deadline, follow-up and closure.
City Council ยท Proposed Statement of Legislative Intent
Show what happened after the complaint.
STLCA's proposed SLI asks Seattle to publish a complete enough enforcement trail for Council and the public to measure the response to rental-housing complaints and renter-protection concerns.
Status: A request for Council consideration. This page does not state that Council adopted the proposed SLI or that the requested reports have been delivered.
Six things the City's reporting should make clear
2. Closure reason
Explain whether the recorded outcome was correction verified, no violation, no access, withdrawal, duplicate, referral or administrative closure. Define Closed and Completed.
3. Property connections
Publish usable links between complaints, notices, emergency orders, relocation matters, rental registration and repeat activity.
4. Money and enforcement
Distinguish potential fines from amounts assessed, billed, collected, waived, referred or outstanding.
5. Field definitions and corrections
Explain systems, source fields, published transformations, quality checks and changes to the LastInspDate field.
6. Program reporting
Explain how complaint-based housing enforcement and the Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance are connected and measured.
The decision requested
Require a written implementation and reporting plan: responsible office, data definitions, timelines, public quality checks, publication schedule and independent review of completeness. Policy oversight needs more than counts of open and closed cases.
The full proposed SLI has been retained in the internal visual master. This page is a public summary, not a representation of an enacted requirement.