The bill includes small but important modifications to the District’s prohibitions on ghost guns and firearms manufacturing to help ensure those prohibitions remain effective.
Our most important role is to help protect our neighbors—and we take that job very seriously.
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today issued the following statement about the Office of the Attorney General (OAG)’s prosecution of violent crime by juveniles. OAG prosecutes all incidents of violent crime committed by juveniles, where there is sufficient evidence to do so. These efforts are one part of a broader effort at the agency to help improve public safety in the short and long-term – and that requires support of others involved in the criminal justice system, like the Mayor, Council, and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that he filed a notice of appeal in Purdue Pharma’s flawed bankruptcy plan. He asserted that the plan is inadequate, and that a bankruptcy court does not have the authority to prevent attorneys general from enforcing state law, including the decision to pursue the company’s owners, members of the Sackler family, for their illegal conduct.
Statement of Jeminé Trouth, Assistant Chief of the Criminal Section with the Public Safety Division, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Attorney General Karl A. Racine joined 23 other state attorneys general in issuing a statement expressing disappointment in a plan filed by opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma in bankruptcy court.
Delivered by Attorney General Karl A. Racine
The next U.S. attorney must possess a clear vision that honors the rule of law and embraces reform.
Strict gun laws do not fully stifle those with direct lawless intent, but they do greatly reduce destructive potential.
