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OLYMPIA – Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced the appointment of Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey D. Goltz as chairman of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC). The UTC protects consumers by ensuring that utility and transportation services are fairly priced, available, reliable and safe.
OLYMPIA—The Legislature has scheduled public hearings on two bills requested by Attorney General Rob McKenna this week.
The House Health Care and Wellness Committee will hear HB 1249 at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in the John L. O’Brien Building, House Hearing Room A.
Attorneys general and bank regulators say reports are misleading
OLYMPIA – Attorney General Rob McKenna joined a group of other attorneys general and state banking regulators in sending a letter urging federal officials to encourage national banks and federal thrift-servicing operations to modify mortgage loans that are becoming unaffordable for consumers.
JANUARY 29, 2008 NO. 009-011
OLYMPIA -- A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of the DSHS Special Commitment Center treatment program for sexually violent predators.
The Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the March 2007 action of U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo Martinez to dissolve a federal injunction against the SCC. At one point, DSHS faced a contempt fine of $11 million before completing improvements that satisfied the court.
OLYMPIA—Assistant Attorneys General Brooke Burbank and Kristie Barham with the AG’s Sexually Violent Predator Unit won a civil commitment case that prevents the unconditional release of a dangerous sexually violent predator into the community.
SEATTLE – The Public Counsel Section of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office today filed an appeal challenging the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission’s approval of Avista’s last electric and gas rate general rate increases that took effect on Jan. 1.
OLYMPIA—Four bills requested by Attorney General Rob McKenna are scheduled for public hearings this week.
Washington residents have been victims of fake job offers and computer malware
SEATTLE – Unemployed workers in Washington and the rest of the country are targets for crooks posing as headhunters, the Attorney General’s Office warned today. Scams include bogus job offers and realistic-looking e-mail messages that contain links to computer viruses or phishing sites.
Attorney General warns Washington residents to beware of cons, unregistered contractors and flood cars
SEATTLE – The Attorney General’s Office today issued a warning about schemes targeting Washington residents whose homes were damaged by recent floods.
Student killed in 1994 murder at Ballard High School
OLYMPIA—Attorney General Rob McKenna today applauded the U.S. Supreme Court for reinstating the murder convictions of an accomplice in a gang-related drive-by shooting at Seattle’s Ballard High School.
“Today’s decision helps brings closure to the family of a girl murdered on the steps of her high school,” McKenna said. “Our office argued, and the Supreme Court agreed, that the convictions for the accomplice in this despicable drive-by were constitutional.”
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