Ferguson joined other state AGs in filing arguments in case with high court

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt:

“I’m pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court recognized today that this Texas law served only to chisel away at a woman’s constitutional right to reproductive choice. 

Washington AG led states’ support of reform effort

OLYMPIA — The U.S. Supreme Court by a 4-4 vote today blocked President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive actions to reform our country’s immigration system.

In Washington alone, the President’s actions would have allowed 105,000 people to move into the legal workforce, increasing the state’s tax revenues by an estimated $57 million over the next five years.

Attorney General’s Office had been fighting since 2014 to prevent release

COUPEVILLE — The Attorney General’s Office today announced that an Island County jury denied the release of a sexually violent predator from the state’s Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island.

Superior court agrees with AG’s amicus brief on Reproductive Privacy Act

MOUNT VERNON — Skagit County Superior Court Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis ruled today that Skagit County Public Hospital District 1 has been violating the Reproductive Privacy Act by failing to provide elective abortion services when it provides a wide range of other maternity care services.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson released the following statement today in response to a letter he recently received from Paul Lawrence, of Pacifica Law Group, regarding the charter schools law passed this year by the Legislature (SB 6194).

Gregoire was the first woman to lead the office

SPOKANE — The Spokane Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office now bears the name of former Attorney General and Gov. Chris Gregoire.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson officially renamed the office today in Spokane with a ceremony and reception honoring Gregoire, who led the Spokane Division in the 1980s and was the state’s first-ever female Deputy Attorney General, promoted by then-AG Ken Eikenberry.

Offender has been civilly committed since 2000

COUPVILLE — Prosecutors with the Attorney General’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit are attempting to prevent a sex offender from being conditionally released into the community in a civil trial this week in Coupeville on Whidbey Island.

Curtis Brogi, 48, was found by an Island County jury to be a Sexually Violent Predator in January of 2000 and was civilly committed to the state’s Special Commitment Center, now located on McNeil Island.

Respondent Tim Eyman refuses to comply with subpoenas in campaign-finance case

TACOMA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that his office obtained the criminal conviction of James Moseley, a Whitman County sex offender, on two felony counts. Moseley pleaded guilty Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court to second-degree assault with a deadly weapon and felony harassment (threat to kill). He was sentenced to more than five years in prison for the offenses.