Other LanguagesThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are imposing unlawful conditions on federal funds to coerce states into complying with the federal administration’s political agenda, Attorney General Nick Brown and a multistate coalition argued in a lawsuit filed today.
Attorney General Nick Brown sent a letter today to 39 county prosecutors and more than 250 municipal attorneys offering the office’s assistance in protecting the rights of Washingtonians to organize politically through the initiative and referendum process.
A King County jury delivered a guilty verdict on all 11 counts in a trial against a man who ran a fraudulent scheme to use stolen identities of real nurses to send unqualified imposter nurses into long-term healthcare facilities.
After successful prosecutions by the Attorney General’s Office, Yakima County juries convicted Frederick Thomson and Lucas Noe Martinez of two counts of attempted child rape.
Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of other attorneys general won their lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda.
Almost a year after Washington state finally eliminated its backlog of untested sexual assault kits, the Attorney General’s Office has released the latest report from the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) Best Practices Advisory Group detailing how the backlog was addressed and making further policy recommendations to support victims and survivors.
A judge in Clallam County Superior Court sentenced Tina Marie Alcorn to more than 13 years in prison today after she pleaded guilty to the murder of George David in 2016. The Attorney General’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP) Cold Case Investigations Unit helped to secure the conviction, its first since the unit was established in 2023.
A Snohomish County Superior Court sentenced Micah Snyder to 160 months in prison last week after he pled guilty to stealing more than $750,000 in high-end sneakers and jewelry in multiple burglaries throughout King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. The Attorney General’s Office prosecuted the case of organized retail theft.
Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a supplemental amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc a case involving the president’s unprecedented use of federal authority to seize control of state National Guard troops over a governor’s objection.
Last week, the Attorney General’s Office prevailed in two cases that sent individuals considered Sexually Violent Predators (SVPs) to the Special Containment Center (SCC) on McNeil Island for custody, care, and treatment.