SEATTLE — The Attorney General’s Office announced today the launch of the Washington State Data Exchange for Public Safety (WADEPS), which is ready to collect use-of-force data from the state’s law enforcement agencies in an effort to improve transparency, trust and evidence-based policymaking.

SEATTLE — The president’s discriminatory ban on transgender military service members undermines state and national security, attorneys general in 20 states argued in a brief filed in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday. The brief was filed in support of a lawsuit from personnel seeking to overturn the order.

SEATTLE — The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is finally providing long-delayed restitution to victims of a predatory tech sales program in Washington and other states after their attorneys general pressed the agency for answers in May.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown issued the following statement today after filing an appeal of a King County Superior Court’s ruling on Initiative-2066 to the Washington state Supreme Court:

“While I personally disagreed with I-2066, it was passed by Washington voters and is the law of the state. My job as Attorney General is to enforce and defend the laws of Washington and I will continue to vigorously do so in this case.”

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SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 15 other attorneys general to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s illegal attempts to cut critical National Science Foundation (NSF) programs and funding that help maintain the United States’ position as a global leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

SEATTLE – Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pacito v. Trump, supporting a challenge to Executive Order 14163, which indefinitely suspended the entry of refugees through the U.S. Refugee Assistance Program (USRAP) and effectively dismantled USRAP’s infrastructure by terminating agreements and funding for resettlement agencies.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of 20 other state attorneys general today won a court order stopping the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown today joined Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, and Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark and 35 other state attorneys general in a bipartisan letter to Congress voicing opposition to a sweeping and dangerous U.S.

SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown and a coalition of attorneys general issued the following statement today after the Supreme Court's hearing on birthright citizenship:
 

SEATTLE — Today Washington state and 19 other attorneys general filed two separate lawsuits against the Trump administration for threatening to withhold federal funding to states that do not assist the federal government’s immigration enforcement.