WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced today that the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) will be required to implement a comprehensive security plan at 10 public housing properties as part of a settlement with the Office of the Attorney General (OAG).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today led a coalition of 21 states in opposing an unlawful Trump administration effort to obstruct asylum seekers from applying for work permits. The coalition filed a comment letter with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arguing that its proposed rule introduces delays, confusion, and unnecessary administrative burdens into the work permit and asylum application processes.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine, along with his counterparts from California and Massachusetts, today led a group of 21 State Attorneys General in challenging the Trump administration’s effort to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals. If the administration is allowed to move forward, Haitian TPS holders in the District and other states would lose their legal status, leaving them vulnerable to deportation.

May was quite the month.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine released the below statement in response to today’s decision by the District’s Public Service Commission (PSC) to deny reconsideration of its March 23 approval of the merger between Pepco Holdings and Exelon: