Earlier this month, City Councilmember Maritza Rivera proposed a budget amendment directing the city’s Human Services Department to analyze “the appropriateness and feasibility” of using King County’s sobering center, which provides people a place to recover from the acute impacts of alcohol and drug intoxication, “to address individuals arrested under Seattle’s drug possession laws, including an evaluation of the need and feasibility for such a facility to be secure.” The amendment is now in the council’s “consent package” of amendments slated to pass without further discussion.