In Defense of Privacy

When a county official corrected course, it exposed what’s missing in Clallam County leadership

In this week’s Sundays with Seegers, County Commissioner candidate Jake Seegers describes how a gated, posted property he co-owns was entered by a county appraiser, sparking a constitutional challenge. After raising concerns under the Fourth Amendment and Washington’s Article I, Section 7, the Grays Harbor Assessor reviewed the issue and implemented corrective action. Seegers argues that this level of humility should be standard — particularly as counties expand aerial surveillance tools like EagleView — and questions whether Clallam County leadership will show the same respect for constitutional limits.