Andrea Suarez, the founder of We Heart Seattle, just wanted to help clean up Seattle and make it a safer place to live. According to their website, the organization has cleaned up over 2,100,000 pounds of trash from parks and shared spaces including dangerous discarded drug paraphernalia distributed through city and county harm reduction programs.
Suarez told Fox News Digital, “One of the biggest advocacy work I have done is that I go to the needle exchange and I get what they call the ‘party kit,’ and I demonstrated that our King County ‘Health’ Department is handing out cookers and tourniquets and glass pipes and paraphernalia to do drugs.”
“I was referring to this ‘party kit’ as a ‘suicide kit’ with very little, if no information on where to get medical detox.”
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Now, the group is now facing a state workplace-safety investigation over the way its volunteers pick up and dispose of used hypodermic needles and fentanyl foil which Suarez “says is its first government probe.”
State of Washington is investigating We Heart Seattle for picking up the needles and fentanyl foil they hand out.
For six years we’ve removed hundreds of thousands of pieces of used drug paraphernalia from Seattle parks, greenbelts, and neighborhoods, the exact litter created by… pic.twitter.com/bzorOh8KiX
— We Heart Seattle (@weheartseattle) August 17, 2026
Suarez told The Center Square, “We received the notice through an email. I sent it to my board of directors. I talked to an attorney. Kind of scary, right? You get this letter demanding all these forms. We, of course, asked for an extension.”
Suarez noted that the very materials she’s being accused of improperly handling are provided to drug addicts by Seattle King County Public Health for free.
Considered “harm reduction”, the supplies include clean syringes, safe smoking kits, foil, and fentanyl test strips, and condoms aimed at preventing disease transmission and fatal overdoses.
“This whole city’s a bloodborne pathogen nightmare. I’ve been saying that for years. I mean, Seattle’s a biohazard,” said Suarez.
In an interview with The Center Square, Suarez said, “We are going, you know, we are going into our 7th year come this fall, and we’ve picked up millions of pounds of trash, hundreds of thousands of pieces of needles and other drug paraphernalia. And thank God we, you know, are safe, you know, and don’t have any kind of record where we’re running people off into the ER room because they’ve, you know, stepped on something sharp and dangerous.”
“And, you know, I expect everybody to you know, go to the doctor and sign a waiver that says they’ve got their proper shots and immunizations if they believe in them and everything else. So, but yeah, it’s the, it’s the overreach, like the big government picking on the little one-woman operation that has organized 75,000 hours of volunteers. And we look like a multimillion-dollar organization because of what we do and because we do make a nickel And because we don’t have red tape and bureaucracy that slow us down, we’re so effective. So, um, I was asked earlier if I think that maybe one of the temporary workers or, you know, one of somebody, you know, legitimately turned us in. And I just, I said, not with any bone of my body do I think somebody that’s a regular with us.”
“I mean, we have a very small team. That’s the whole point and say, ‘Hey guys, is, is there any issues today? You know, anything we can improve on with?’”
“We did add a couple more people to go get the bloodborne pathogen training for $40. I mean, gosh, I think every single human being walking through the streets of Seattle should probably get a bloodborne pathogen certificate on how to handle, you know, what’s out here right now.”
“You know, Narcan cartridges and vials full of medicine to reduce, reverse overdoses. And this is the, this is the biggest kicker for anybody listening that doesn’t know this. Our county Department of Health hands out the foil, the cookers, the tourniquets, the needles, and everything that we’re trying to do to clean this up.”
“They are handing it out with nothing inside that kit on where to dispose your used needle or your used foil. It just ends up on the ground like another piece of litter, you know, so I am going to file an L&I claim against a lot of people today in the next 48 hours because we need to raise the bar. And there’s a lot of people out there picking up needles and foils, and if I’m doing it wrong, maybe everybody else is too.”
“And let’s improve the system and make it safer for all.”
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