SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today called on five major phone companies to offer call-blocking technology to their customers.

In a joint letter sent with 44 other attorneys general to the chief executives of the carriers, Ferguson said a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule clarification confirms that telecommunications service providers can offer customers the ability to block unwanted calls.

First case brought utilizing AG-request Pension Poacher Prevention Act

(AGO file photo) Attorney General Bob Ferguson, center, talks with a soldier at a February 2015 event at Joint Base Lewis McChord with Assistant Attorney General Travis Alley, right.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson released the following statement regarding today’s Washington State Supreme Court ruling in Demetrio & Paz v. Sakuma Bros. Farms, Inc., in which the Attorney General’s Office filed a “friend of the court” brief:
 

Offender will remain confined pending commitment proceedings

COLVILLE — The Washington Attorney General’s Office has filed a petition in Stevens County Superior Court seeking to civilly commit a sex offender and prevent his release into the community.

Joseph Griffith, 34, will remain confined pending civil commitment proceedings. He was convicted in Snohomish County in 2000 of two counts of second-degree rape of a child, a sexually violent offense, and was sentenced to 14 years, two months in prison.  He was released from confinement in 2012.

Agreement halts collections on 7,000 Washingtonians, requires debt collection reforms, secures $4M for Washington

EVERETT — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announce

OLYMPIA — Today, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. The court held same-sex marriage is legal nationwide.

OLYMPIA — “The U.S. Supreme Court today gave a common-sense reading to Congress’s intent in passing the Affordable Care Act, ensuring all Americans can obtain health coverage at reasonable rates. 

Charges described as benefitting employees must go to workers
 

SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today criticized the recent attempt by the U.S. Department of Energy to extend the schedule for part of its Hanford cleanup.

For more than a year, the Attorney General’s Office, on behalf of the State of Washington, and the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of Energy, have advocated competing proposals to modify the consent decree governing part of the Hanford cleanup process.  The dispute is now being litigated in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington.