SEATTLE — The Attorney General’s Office (AGO), under the guidance and leadership of a Truth and Healing Tribal Advisory Committee (TAC), released a preliminary report on the history of Indian boarding schools in Washington, outlining next steps the committee and the AGO will undertake as they aim to help policymakers address the harmful legacies of these institutions.

In 2023, the state Legislature directed the AGO to convene the TAC to research the history and impacts of Indian boarding schools in Washington.

SEATTLE– Washington Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a multistate coalition in filing a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) decision to provide unrestricted access to individual personal health data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

SEATTLE — A coalition of 16 state attorneys general, led by Washington, filed a lawsuit late Monday against the U.S. Department of Education for illegally cutting congressionally approved funding for mental health programs in K-12 schools.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following statement today following the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion today impacting states’ suits against the Trump administration’s birthright citizenship executive order:

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown and 13 other attorneys general have won a court order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to withhold about $1 billion in funding for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure directed by Congress to the plaintiff states.

SEATTLE – El procurador general Nick Brown presentó hoy una demanda por derechos civiles contra Cornerstone Ranches de Toppenish, y sus filiales, alegando que el productor de lúpulo (jape) y manzana discriminó a trabajadores agrícolas locales y mujeres al despedirlos ilegalmente y reemplazarlos con trabajadores agrícolas extranjeros con visa H-2A.

SEATTLE – Attorney General Nick Brown today filed a civil rights lawsuit against Toppenish-based Cornerstone Ranches and its affiliates, alleging the hops and apple grower discriminated against local and female farmworkers by unlawfully terminating them and replacing them with foreign H-2A agricultural workers.

Cornerstone fired local workers after holding them to unfair productivity standards and other requirements not applied to H-2A workers, laid off local workers while H-2A employees continued to work, and regularly reduced local workers’ hours and schedules.

SEATTLE — The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP) Task Force has submitted its third annual report to the Washington state legislature. This year’s report is accompanied by reports commissioned by the Task Force — “Confronting the Crisis: Addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People in Washington” and “Family and Survivor Interviews: Qualitative Analysis” both by E. Grant, L. Dechert, & L. Wimbish, Laramie, WY: Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center, University of Wyoming.
 

SEATTLE — A federal judge Monday overturned Trump administration directives that defunded National Institutes of Health grants supporting vital biomedical research in America. The judge said the move was “arbitrary and capricious” and called out “a darker aspect” to the cases – that they are a clear attempt at “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LBGTQ community.”

SEATTLE – Attorney General Nick Brown today announced that all 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family.

This settlement in principle is the nation’s largest to date with individuals responsible for the opioid crisis. The Attorney General’s Office estimates Washington state and its local governments will receive as much as $105.6 million from this settlement over the next 15 years.