AG Paxton Offers Assistance to Target After Another Security Breach
"We offer our full resources to assist Target in addressing this latest issue in order to protect our citizens when they feel the most vulnerable."
AG Paxton Leads Coalition of 11 AGs to Defend the First Amendment on Climate Change Policy Debate
“The Constitution was written to protect citizens from government witch-hunts that are nothing more than an attempt to suppress speech on an issue of public importance, just because a government official happens to disagree with that particular viewpoint,” Attorney General Paxton said when filing the brief.
Attorney General Paxton’s Statement on the Alpine Shooting
“I am currently monitoring the active shooter situation in Alpine. I have directed my office to offer any measure of support needed to assist the law enforcement officials currently working this case. I wish to extend prayers and sympathy to any victims’ families and their loved ones who have been affected by this senseless act of violence.”
AG Paxton Reaches $1.175 Million Settlement with Katz Boutique
The Katz Boutique lawsuit was the first synthetic cannabinoid lawsuit filed jointly by the OAG and HCAO. Evidence collected during the lawsuit revealed the stores sold over 90,000 packets of synthetic drugs to Texas consumers since 2013 and made millions of dollars from sales of illegal drugs. Businesses often market synthetic cannabinoids as being safe without disclosing they are dangerous and illegal.
AG Paxton’s Office Teams Up with Truckers and Law Enforcement in San Antonio to Combat Human Trafficking
“Truckers are the eyes and ears of our Texas highways,” Attorney General Paxton said, “This partnership brings law enforcement and the trucking industry together, educating them on the signs of human trafficking and how to report it. It helps ensure that victims will be identified and rescued, and that traffickers will find themselves behind bars.”
Attorney General Paxton Sues Waller County to Enforce Licensed Carry
“A local government cannot be allowed to flout Texas’s licensed carry laws, or any state law, simply because it disagrees with the law or doesn’t feel like honoring it,” said Attorney General Paxton. “I will vigilantly protect and preserve the Second Amendment rights of Texans.”
AG Paxton: Texas Wins Suit, Abides by Fair Housing Act
A federal district court ruled today that the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) complied with the Fair Housing Act concerning its distribution of low-income housing tax credits.
AG Paxton: Child Exploitation Unit Makes 37th Arrest of the Year
The Office of the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Unit (CEU) received multiple reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Cyber Tipline that Kennedy uploaded images of child pornography to a micro-blogging website. The report prompted CEU investigators to execute a search warrant at Kennedy’s home in Wortham, resulting in the seizure of several digital storage devices.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sends Guidance Letter to Texas Schools
“My office brought this lawsuit to stop the Obama Administration from rewriting the laws that have been enacted by the elected representatives of the people””and to stop his administrative agencies from threatening to take away federal funding from schools to force them to conform. The injunction granted does precisely that.”
AG Paxton: Registered Sex Offender Arrested in Williamson County
The Office of the Attorney General’s Child Exploitation Unit (CEU) received a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Cyber Tipline that Burke uploaded images of child pornography. The report prompted CEU investigators to execute a search warrant at Burke’s home in Taylor, where child pornography was found on his laptop computer.