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The attorney general represents clients of the state and defends the public interest in accordance to state law. The office of the attorney general is an executive office elected by the citizens of Washington, and the officeholder serves a four-year term.
The Washington Attorney General's Office serves over 230 state agencies, boards, commissions, colleges, and universities, as well as the governor and Legislature. [10] As Attorney General, McKenna made the protection of consumers and businesses, the improvement of community safety and the advancement of open government his chief priorities. [11]
The 2024 Washington Attorney General election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the next attorney general of Washington, concurrently with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the U.S. Senate and various state and local elections, including for U.S. House and governor of Washington.
He left his position in 2022 as “one of the most respected police chiefs in the state,” and is now throwing his support behind the current attorney general. It’s a rare endorsement for the ...
In 2021, Senate Bill 5259 tasked the State Attorney General’s Office with creating a separate advisory group to make recommendations on a police use of force database that would be accessible to ...
As Washington State Attorney General, Ferguson lost a long-running case with Savers Value Village. The case started in 2015 and reached the Washington State Supreme Court in 2023, where the judges unanimously found that Value Village did not defraud consumers by representing itself as a charity, as Ferguson had claimed. [71]
Ferguson’s approach is similar to one that New York Attorney General Leticia James used in 2020 to sue the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, based on state civil laws regulating charities. James ...
Washington (state) Attorney General elections (7 P) Pages in category "Washington (state) Attorneys General" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.