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News advisory: AG’s Office, Facebook to announce joint battle against social media scam

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

Public comment sought on Pacific Power rate increase proposal

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.

McKenna Accepts Petitions From More Than 720,000 Americans Calling for End to Sex Trafficking of Children & Young People

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. 
 

McKenna pursues legislation to better protect stalking victims

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.”

Supreme Court rules on Basic Education case

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.”

McKenna statement on end of AT&T/T-Mobile merger proposal

SEATTLE – Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna issued the following statement today regarding AT&T’s abandonment of its efforts to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom:

“This merger would have violated laws written to maintain the benefits of real competition, including reasonable prices and quality service. Now that the merger has been abandoned, Washington state consumers will continue to choose from several mobile communications providers, including T-Mobile, which has a major presence in our backyard.”

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