(The Center Square) - Washington Attorney General's Office spokesman told reporters there was “no story” in a scoop by The Center Square about AGO and legislative communications over the millionaire's tax, dismissing the investigation as “misinformation” and “nonsense,” new internal emails show.
(The Center Square) - The Washington State Attorney General’s Office is proposing new model rules for how state and local governments comply with the Public Records Act, a move many advocates say is needed to address what they consider ongoing compliance issues.
(The Center Square) - The release of sensitive internal communications between the Washington State Attorney General’s Office and lawmakers about how to push forward a millionaire's tax appeared to be "on the fly" and "discriminatory," with some getting all the documents and other heavily redacted versions, records and interviews obtained by The Center Square show.
(The Center Square) - If the Washington state Legislature were to enact a wealth tax as proposed in recent years, it would face significant legal challenge and a "realistic possibility” of being overturned by the State Supreme Court for violating the state constitution’s uniformity clause, according to a new memo from the State Attorney General’s Office obtained by The Center Square.
(The Center Square) - In response to Attorney General Nick Brown's call for daycares who felt harassed by journalists asking about they are actually providing services, a number daycare owners called the hotline to allege harassment, a review of reports from the State Attorney General’s Office’s bias incident/hate crime hotline The Center Square obtained under state open records laws.
(The Center Square) - The Washington Secretary of State’s Office has turned over unredacted attorney client privileged emails to The Center Square after it appealed the redactions of communication between SOS and the State Attorney General’s Office, though SOS insists it has not waived privilege.
