Telecoms, collection agencies and broadband providers again top complaints to AG’s Office

SEATTLE – The numbers are in. The Washington State Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division today announced their annual list of the top 20 classes of companies about which consumers complain.

SEATTLE – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg today asked businesses to reinforce their work to protect consumer data.

Dual actions take aim at social media spammers

SEATTLE – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna will visit Facebook’s Seattle headquarters Thursday to announce a joint legal strategy against a scheme that takes advantage of those using the social media platform.

WHO:

Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna
Assistant Attorney General Paula Selis
Facebook Lead Litigation Counsel Craig Clark

WHAT:

Announcement of a partnership to combat scam against Facebook users

SEATTLE –– Pacific Power customers may comment this week on the company’s proposed electric and gas rate increases during public hearings in Walla Walla and Yakima.

Pacific Power in July filed paperwork with the Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) requesting a 4.3 percent rate increase. UTC staff recommends a 1.1 percent increase. The three-member UTC, which is not bound by the staff recommendation, will this spring make a final decision on the rate increase request. New rates, if approved, would take effect in May.

Most locations of the Washington Attorney General's Office in Western Washington are open with essential personnel only today.

OLYMPIA – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna yesterday joined 52 of his fellow state and territorial attorneys general in calling on Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to ensure that vital programs to keep women and families safe continue uninterrupted.

SEATTLE - On National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (January 11th), ethical beauty retailer, The Body Shop, alongside campaign partners ECPAT USA and The Somaly Mam Foundation, will hand over petition signatures of more than 720,000 U.S. citizens to the President of the National Association of Attorneys General, AG Rob McKenna. The petition demonstrates widespread public concern on the sex trafficking crisis affecting children and young people here in the U.S. and across the world. 
 

Also introduces proposals to record executive sessions, reduce lawsuit costs at state-funded hospitals

OLYMPIA – Tracy Lundeen and Ken Paulson experienced a kind of terror that, fortunately, most people will never know. Tracy was stalked for nearly two decades by a boy she met when she was just 13.

“I spent a few minutes helping a fellow student - a stranger - with his homework,” Lundeen said.  “He spent the next 19 years stalking me.  That kind moment turned into a living nightmare that has controlled every aspect of my life.”

OLYMPIA – The Washington State Supreme Court today issued a 7-2 decision in McCleary v. Washington, ruling that the state is not complying with its constitutional duty to “make ample provision for the basic education of all children in Washington.”

The Court recognized the Legislature had enacted “a promising reform package” in its 2009 education reform bill and indicated that legislation, if funded, “will remedy deficiencies in the K-12 funding system.”