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AG Ferguson visits 100th Rotary

Ferguson’s goal is to visit every Rotary club in Washington state

RICHLAND — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is today speaking to the Richland Riverside Rotary, the 100th Rotary he has visited since taking office.

Ferguson has attended Rotary meetings in 25 of Washington’s 39 counties. After taking office in 2013, he committed to visiting all of the state’s 187 Rotary clubs. His first Rotary meeting as Attorney General was in Auburn.

AG’s office wins $3M federal grant to process backlogged sexual assault DNA evidence

Grant provides necessary funding to process an estimated 6,000 untested sexual assault kits and train law enforcement

OLYMPIA — The Attorney General’s Office won a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to inventory, test and help investigate the state’s backlog of sexual assault kits, which provide DNA evidence for sexual assault investigations.

AGO attorneys in court on DACA challenge today

OLYMPIA — Attorneys with the Wing Luke Civil Rights Unit are in federal court in New York today for the first hearing on Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s case seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

“Allowing nearly 18,000 Dreamers to live and work in Washington makes our communities stronger and better places to live,” Ferguson said. “I will do everything in my power to ensure that they can continue to feel secure in what is, for many of them, the only home they have ever known.”

AG Ferguson seeks to join challenge to Trump’s transgender military ban

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today asked a federal court to allow the State of Washington to join a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.

“Thousands of transgender individuals serve or have served their country with honor and distinction,” Ferguson said. “Barring transgender individuals from serving based on anything other than their ability and conduct is wrong.”

AG Ferguson and Governor Inslee face off in revived softball rivalry

Ferguson and team will be “serving up some justice”

OLYMPIA — This evening, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his softball team will go head-to-head with Governor Jay Inslee to reignite a decades-old rivalry between the offices. Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst will call the balls and strikes as umpire, and former Attorney General and Sen. Slade Gorton will throw out the first pitch.

AG Ferguson sues Capital Medical Center for withholding charity care from thousands of low-income patients

Capital aggressively pressured patients to pay without informing them of their charity care rights

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit against Capital Medical Center in Olympia, alleging it repeatedly violated Washington’s Consumer Protection Act by withholding charity care from thousands of low-income patients.

Procurador General Ferguson demanda a operador del Centro de Detención del Noroeste por violaciones salariales

Compañía multibillonaria paga a los detenidos con antojitos o $1 al día por trabajar

TACOMA — El Procurador General Bob Ferguson anunció hoy una demanda en contra de The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO), el segundo proveedor de cárceles privadas más grande del país, por no pagar el salario mínimo a sus trabajadores, lucrando millones en ganancias ilícitas. La demanda del estado solicita al tribunal que ordene a la compañía a renunciar a estas ganancias.