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Scheme forced Latino farm worker tenants to sign purchase agreements to remain in poor living conditions

OLYMPIA —The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) today announced that it filed a complaint in Thurston County Superior Court alleging campaign finance violations by the Clark County Republican Central Committee. Specifically, the AGO asserts the committee failed to timely report a total of $586,268 in contributions, and $463,079 in debts and expenditures since 2012.

Three-judge panel unanimously agrees with lower court, dismisses challenge

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed with a lower court ruling and dismissed a challenge against Washington’s voter-approved Initiative 594, which expanded the state’s firearm background check requirements.

Decision will raise premiums for tens of thousands of Washingtonians

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today joined a multistate coalition in filing a lawsuit seeking to force the Trump Administration to continue a key Affordable Care Act funding provision after the President announced on Thursday he would stop the payments.

VANCOUVER — Prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit are in Clark County Superior Court this week, working to prevent the release of a convicted sex offender. The trial is expected to continue two and a half weeks.

Matthew Hopkins, 32, has been convicted of multiple sex offenses against children, dating back to 2001. In the interest of public safety, prosecutors in the Sexually Violent Predator Unit (SVP) are seeking his involuntary commitment to the state’s Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island.

Ferguson defeated first travel ban, now seeks to block third

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced he has asked a federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s latest version of his travel ban. This version would create an indefinite ban on travel by millions of people, including many with close ties to Washington.

Twice as many data breaches, six times the number of consumers impacted compared to previous year

OLYMPIA — Today Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson released his second annual Data Breach Report. His report finds that between July of 2016 and July of this year, data breaches affected nearly 3 million Washingtonians — more than six times the number impacted in the previous 12 months period.

Ferguson asks court in Seattle to declare new rules unlawful

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the Trump Administration’s new rules undermining women’s access to contraception.

The new rules would allow any company to deny coverage for contraceptive services to its female employees based on religious grounds. Additionally, certain types of organizations would also be able to deny this coverage on moral grounds. 

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.

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.