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.

“These cases remind us why we have a civil commitment process,” said AG Nick Brown. “Confining people who meet SVP criteria to McNeil Island helps individuals get the treatment they need and keeps Washingtonians safe.”

Today, Attorney General Nick Brown joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaiʻi, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, to issue a joint statement condemning the Trump administration’s retaliatory prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James:

Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general and governors in filing a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in support of Illinois against President Trump’s unlawful, unconstitutional, and undemocratic deployment of the National Guard without approval from the state’s governor.

Clergy in Washington will remain mandatory reporters under stipulations filed today by the state Attorney General’s Office and the plaintiffs in lawsuits against the state over Senate Bill 5375. Under the stipulations, however, the state and county prosecutors have agreed—as the court ordered—not to enforce reporting requirements for information clergy learn solely through confession or its equivalent in other faiths. The stipulation now awaits approval by the court.