Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

The Problem Every few weeks another story breaks. A teacher or coach with a documented history of inappropriate conduct toward a student. Hired by a new school or college that never knew. Sometimes the warning signs were in a personnel file the new employer never asked for. Sometimes an investigation was underway and the employee simply resigned before it finished. Leaving no formal finding for anyone to disclose. Sometimes the law on the books simply did not require anyone to check. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in our own district. Shoreline Community College hired a former Henry M. Jackson High School physics teacher. Who had resigned from Everett Public Schools. While under investigation for a years long inappropriate relationship with a student. Shoreline never called the high school. State law did not require it to. Washington's 2020 disclosure law. The first of its kind in the nation. Required colleges to check with other colleges. Not with K-12 districts.  ...

Statement -- Kincaid for Congress -- Washington's 1st District -- 2026 Background Checks for All Taxpayer Funded Housing Facilities The Housing First model has no system to detect residents with active warrants. That is not a policy gap. It is a public safety failure. And a 15 year old girl paid the price. According to Seattle news reports. A 15 year old girl was waiting for the bus at the Northgate transit stop when Joshua V. Kowalczewski age 36. Rode up on a bicycle, asked her age, told her she was attractive. Then threatened her and forced her into nearby woods. Where police say he sexually assaulted her. Kowalczewski has been arrested and charged. And is being held on $1 million bail.  The reason this case has drawn public attention is his record. According to KIRO 7 . Kowalczewski had 28 arrests and 13 convictions spanning 19 years. And 9 active warrants across 5 jurisdictions at the time of the arrest. Reporting indicates 46 warrants have been issued against him s...

Updated July 2026. A wrongful death lawsuit reported this month has confirmed what this post argued in March. The full timeline of the failure is now a matter of public record. There was public outrage when Cordell Goosby was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. Before addressing that two things need to be said. Some of that outrage is racially motivated. The instinct to send a Black man to prison rather than seek treatment. Had the perpetrator been white. Many of those same voices would not react so strongly. That applies to some people not all. Now let's turn to those whose outrage is genuine and not rooted in racial bias. To those people. I say your outrage is misplaced. It should not be focused on where Cordell Goosby was sent. It should be focused on the fact that the deaths of Eina Kwon and her unborn daughter Evelyn could have been prevented. I believe those deaths could have been prevented. And that is where our en...

Apps like Citizen and others are revealing something that too many families in this district do not realize. A significant number of registered sex offenders live throughout our communities. Many of them in close proximity to schools, parks and places where children gather every day. Parents deserve straightforward access to accurate information. They deserve public safety policies that genuinely reduce risk . Not policies designed around the comfort of offenders or the avoidance of difficult conversations. This page is about both. What the data shows and what Washington's law currently allows. How we compare to other states and what needs to change. The Problem: Washington's Protections Expire When the Risk Does Not Many states restrict high risk sex offenders from residing within a defined distance of schools, parks, daycare centers, playgrounds, bus stops, and other child focused facilities. These buffer zones typically range from 500 to 2,500 feet depending on the s...

The System Failed And an Innocent Woman Paid the Price The Tragic Case of Bethany MaGee, Lawrence Reed and Why We Must Reform Civil Commitment Laws When violent repeat offenders are allowed to roam freely despite decades of documented warning signs. Innocent people are left playing Russian roulette simply by going about their daily lives. We must bring back long term psychiatric care. We must reform civil commitment laws. And we must stop pretending that what we are doing is working. Just months after Iryna Zarutska was randomly stabbed in the neck and killed on a train in North Carolina. Another horrifying attack occurred this time on a train in Chicago. According to federal prosecutors. On November 17, 2025  Bethany MaGee a 26 year old woman. Was riding the CTA Blue Line and looking at her phone when Lawrence Reed age 50. Approached her without provocation. Poured a flammable liquid on her and set her on fire. She survived critical injuries burns to more than half her bod...

The historic neighborhoods of Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon in Seattle's International District are not part of Washington's 1st Congressional District. They belong to District 7. But the Asian American communities in Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Bothell and across WA-01 are very much part of this campaign  and what happens in Seattle's Asian neighborhoods matters deeply to them  and to all of us. The families and business owners of Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon are largely immigrants or the children of immigrants people who followed the legal immigration process. Built businesses from nothing. Created some of the most culturally vibrant and economically productive communities in the Pacific Northwest. They did everything right. And for years they have been failed by the very officials elected to protect them. To the people of these communities.  Kincaid sees you. I hear you. And I will stand with you  not just in words, but in policy and i...

Three Crises, Three Solutions: A Smarter Strategy to End Homelessness "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." By that standard America's approach to homelessness has lost its mind. We spend more every year. The crisis gets worse every year. The problem is not a lack of money and it is not a lack of compassion. It is that we keep applying one solution to three completely different problems. Homelessness is not one crisis. It is three  addiction, severe mental illness and economic hardship. Each one demands a different response. Until our policy matches the cause to the cure nothing will change. Decades of Failure Billions Spent For decades  agencies from HUD down to county programs have spent billions to fight homelessness. The spending goes up. The promises pile up. The encampments keep growing. Why? Because most of our programs rest on a theory that does not survive contact with reality. That if a thousand people are home...