AG Paxton Requests Records on Chick-fil‑A Decision by San Antonio City Council
Attorney General Ken Paxton today sent a second letter to the mayor and council members for the City of San Antonio, making an open records request for documents related to the Office of the Attorney General’s investigation of the City’s decision to exclude Chick-fil-A from the San Antonio International Airport.
AG Paxton’s Public Integrity Unit Arrests Former San Jacinto County Judge for Impersonating a Public Servant
Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the Public Integrity Unit of his Criminal Investigations Division arrested former San Jacinto County Judge John Lovett Jr., of Shepherd, Texas, for impersonating a public servant, a third-degree felony.
AG Paxton Joins Multi-State Coalition Brief Defending Trump Administration Title X Funding Rule to Protect the Unborn
Attorney General Ken Paxton today joined a multistate coalition brief defending a new Trump Administration rule for the Title X grant program which allows family planning services to cease providing abortion counseling and referral.
AG Paxton’s Child Exploitation Unit Arrests Lampasas County Man for Possession of Child Pornography
Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that the Child Exploitation Unit (CEU) of his office arrested 53-year-old John Walter Sickles, of Kempner, Texas, on one count of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony.
AG Paxton Testifies Before Senate State Affairs Committee in Support of Anti-Human Trafficking Bill
Appearing today before the Senate State Affairs Committee, Attorney General Ken Paxton testified in support of Senate Bill 1257, which would give the attorney general’s office concurrent jurisdiction on human trafficking cases to further the state’s effort to combat modern-day slavery.
AG Paxton Hails SCOTUS Decision Backing Missouri in Death Penalty Case
Attorney General Ken Paxton today applauded the U.S. Supreme Court after it rejected a death row inmate’s challenge to Missouri’s plan to execute him by lethal injection.
AG Paxton Commends 5th Circuit Ruling that Spares Texas Taxpayers from Funding Sex-Change Surgery for Prisoners
Attorney General Ken Paxton today commended last Friday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Texas prison officials do not violate transgender inmates’ constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment by refusing to provide them with gender reassignment surgery.