Announcements, information & updates from the Attorney General Alliance Members and Associates
March 18, 2022
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The Attorney General Alliance is proud to announce our Spring Policy Conference!
This two-day event gathers leaders in business and government to examine the latest issues in data privacy, cybersecurity, and cryptocurrency.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta will co-host the event that will focus on new laws, novel threats, and emerging technologies. Please join us as we discuss the benefits and challenges that connect you with partners across the United States tackling the same issues.
If you are interested in joining us for the Spring Policy Conference please reach out to Ale Stephens at astephens@agalliance.org.
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Attorney General Phil Weiser joined other Colorado lawmakers in the signing of Colorado’s witness intimidation law. The law is set to expand after Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 24 into law.
The bill will go into effect on July 1, expanding legal protections to cover intimidation that influences a person to withhold information or give false information to law enforcement, a defense attorney or a defense investigator. Currently, the law only covers intimidation that influences testimony in court, meaning a witness or victim is not protected until after they report the crime.
Current law already criminalizes the intimidation of a witness to a legal proceeding, but the legislation will also explicitly cover intimidation of any person who may have information relevant to a criminal investigation, as well as any person who is believed to be able to influence a victim or witness. Intimidating a witness is a Class 4 felony in Colorado, carrying a maximum sentence of six years in prison and a fine of $500,000. From 2018 to 2021, 108 people were convicted and sentenced for intimidating a witness in Colorado, according to state data.
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that his office will provide 53 local law enforcement agencies across the state with funding for refrigeration units to store evidence from sexual assault investigations.
Ferguson is providing the new units as part of his Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) — a campaign to improve Washington’s response to sexual assault and end the state’s rape kit backlog. The Attorney General’s Office is allocating $177,204.73 of its federal SAKI grant funding to local law enforcement for the purpose of purchasing refrigeration units to store sexual assault kits.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $2.15 million in restitution from an energy services company, Family Energy, for deceiving and misleading thousands of New Yorkers across the state. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that Family Energy’s dishonest business practices resulted in New York consumers paying more for their gas and electric services — sometimes hundreds of dollars more per year — than they would have paid to their utilities.
As a result of Attorney General James’ agreement, Family Energy is required to stop its deceptive practices.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 19 attorneys general, called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen protections against lead poisoning, particularly for children living in low-income communities and communities of color. While EPA has taken steps to increase public health protections and address lead contamination in vulnerable communities, the coalition argues that EPA could bolster its plans by taking various steps to target childhood lead poisoning, such as expanding resources to better enforce laws, creating new policies to address hazardous waste sites and drinking water, and more. |
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A coalition of 23 attorneys general and six cities and counties, joined a motion to intervene in defense of federal greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) standards for light-duty vehicles. Joining AG Nessel in filing the motion are the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.
In the motion to intervene, the coalition argues that the GHG standards are critically important to states, which are already experiencing the economic, public health, and environmental impacts of climate change.
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New AGA Partner T-Mobile is proud to announce their expanded home internet service. The shift from schools and offices to the home during the COVID pandemic truly underscored the importance of in-home broadband connectivity, particularly for those who live in more rural communities that have traditionally been unserved or underserved by ISPs. Thanks to the scale and network capacity produced by the merger of T-Mobile & Sprint, the Un-carrier is bringing high-speed fixed wireless broadband service to millions of Americans who live in these rural and underserved areas. Today, more than 30 million households nationwide are eligible for T-Mobile’s home internet offering, 10 million of which are in rural America, and we’re not done yet. T-Mobile plans to cover more than half of U.S. zip codes by 2024. More information about T-Mobile’s Home Internet offering can be found below.
T-Mobile Home Internet is just $50/month all-in and features many of the same benefits that have made T-Mobile the fastest-growing wireless provider for the past seven years:
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Self-installation. That means there’s no need for installers to come to your home.
- Taxes and fees included.
- No annual service contracts.
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No maddening “introductory” price offers. What you pay at sign-up is what you’ll pay as long as you have service.
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No hardware rental, sign-up fee or installation costs (because the set-up is so easy!).
- No data caps.
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Customer support from the team that consistently ranks #1 in customer service satisfaction year after year.
Now that customers have had access to T-Mobile Home Internet since 2019, the reviews are in … and the feedback speaks for itself. Customers give T-Mobile Home Internet an average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 42, compared to -75 (that’s a negative 75!) for their previous provider. Seventy-three percent report saving money with T-Mobile Home Internet, with 50% saving more than $30 per month (that’s $360 annually!).
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Missed our live programs? No problem! Follow the button below to visit our Virtual Seminar Library for access to all recordings.
Do you have a webinar topic suggestion? We want to hear from you! Please email ideas to Patricia Salazar at PSalazar@AGAlliance.org.
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