NEWS

Mar 29, 2022, 10:09 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the launch of the Students First Initiative, an effort by the Attorney General’s Office to increase transparency in Missouri’s schools. The goal of the initiative is to ensure a quality education for Missouri’s children by uncovering and eliminating curriculum and policies and practices that prioritize politics in the classroom instead of student education and success. Attorney General Schmitt also recently pushed for a bill that would establish a Parents’ Bill of Rights, aimed at empowering parents and increasing transparency around curriculum and practices in Missouri’s schools.

Mar 24, 2022, 11:31 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that charges brought by his office resulted in the arrest of Jerry Thompson, Jr., of Blue Springs, Missouri. The arrest warrant asserts eight counts of deceptive business practices and three counts of financial exploitation of an elderly person.

Mar 18, 2022, 13:28 PM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today announced that his Office has obtained a consent judgment in his lawsuit against the City of Moscow Mills for violations of Senate Bill 5 and accompanying reforms. The lawsuit was filed in November, 2021, after information came to light about alleged ticket quotas and other violations of SB5.

Mar 16, 2022, 10:27 AM by AG Schmitt

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against the Rockwood School District for alleged Sunshine Law violations.

Mar 15, 2022, 10:16 AM by AG Schmitt

Today, to kick off Sunshine Week, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed suit against the Missouri School Boards Association for alleged violations of the Sunshine Law.

Mar 11, 2022, 10:57 AM by AG Schmitt

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that James M. Enloe has been charged with violating Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act in Greene County. Enloe is charged by complaint with two class E felonies of deceptive business practices for allegedly defrauding consumers in connection with his business, Enloe Exteriors.

Mar 10, 2022, 16:23 PM by AG Schmitt

Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that his Office filed a civil action in St. Charles County against Derek McGlasson of McGlasson Family Construction for unlawful business practices, alleging that he never provided promised construction services after collecting payment for them.

Mar 10, 2022, 11:40 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The Missouri Attorney General’s Office received 126,100 total consumer complaints in 2021, submitted in writing or via phone call. The Consumer Complaint Unit received 86,856 complaints and inquiries and the No-Call Unit received 39,244 complaints.

Mar 9, 2022, 15:01 PM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that Rodney G. Durbin, who owned and operated “Honey Do’s Handy Service,” from Belle, Missouri, has been charged with consumer fraud and, on account of those charges, arrested. Durbin faces nine counts in Maries County for defrauding consumers and financially exploiting elderly Missourians.

Mar 9, 2022, 10:03 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that his office has charged Marcus James Hill of Lebanon, Missouri, with thirteen violations of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act in relating to his two car dealerships, Variety Auto Sales and Hilltop Auto Sales. Charged in Laclede County, Hill faces thirteen felony counts of deceptive business practices.

Mar 8, 2022, 11:40 AM by AG Schmitt

Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that his Office filed a civil action against James Chazen and Rainworks Irrigation Co., of St. Louis and St. Francois counties, for unlawful business practices. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants took advance payments between 2017 and 2020 from at least seventeen Missouri residents for irrigation system maintenance services that the defendants never provided.

Mar 7, 2022, 16:08 PM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that his Office filed a civil action against Zechariah Hockersmith, Richard Hockersmith, and ProCare Pools, LLC, out of Rolla, Missouri, for unlawful business practices. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants took advance payments between 2018 and 2019 from at least four Missouri residents for pool installation and maintenance services that the defendants never provided.

Mar 4, 2022, 08:31 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joined a coalition of 14 states in filing a lawsuit to force the Biden Administration to turn over records related to the crafting and decisions behind the administration’s memo that designated concerned parents who show up at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”

Mar 3, 2022, 14:48 PM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today joined a coalition of 27 states filing an amicus brief in Kennedy v. Bremerton, supporting a Washington state football coach’s right to engage in his private exercise of religion by praying after football games. Coach Joseph Kennedy was suspended by Bremerton School District after praying while in view of his students. The school district claimed that Kennedy violated a direct order when he “engaged in demonstrative religious activity readily observable to students and the attending public.”

Mar 3, 2022, 09:18 AM by AG Schmitt

Following Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky’s visit to Washington University this morning, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt released the following statement:

Mar 2, 2022, 14:40 PM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joined a nationwide investigation into TikTok for providing and promoting its social media platform to children and young adults while use is associated with physical and mental health harms. Attorneys General nationwide are examining whether the company violated state consumer protection laws that put the public at risk.

Mar 2, 2022, 11:29 AM by AG Schmitt

Attorney General Eric Schmitt urges all Missouri residents who believe they were impacted by the data breach announced by T-Mobile in August 2021 to take proactive steps to protect their information from identity theft.

Mar 1, 2022, 11:45 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with a coalition of 25 states, voiced his opposition to President Biden’s proposed rule to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) that would prohibit liquefied natural gas (LNG) from being transported by rail car in the United States. In a comment letter sent yesterday, the attorneys general argue that this Biden proposal will have devastating effects on the economy, American energy, and national security.

Feb 28, 2022, 12:30 PM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Texas and 12 other state attorneys general, filed suit against the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their proposed regulatory rule that seeks to increase the stringency of greenhouse gas emissions for light trucks and vehicles, which could impose immense negative economic impacts on individual states.

Feb 22, 2022, 10:35 AM by AG Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with 13 other attorneys general are calling for U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ resignation. In a letter, citing the continued failure to enforce federal law and secure the southwest border, the coalition of 14 state attorneys general is demanding that Secretary Mayorkas leave office as his failed leadership has resulted in a disaster at the southwest border and led the nation to the verge of a national security crisis.