Press Releases

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office obtained a 295-year sentence for Brett Pendleton of Franklin County, Missouri, in connection with the sexual abuse of his eight-year-old daughter in 2018. In October, the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 19 states in opposing the Biden Administration's proposed rule that would require foster care agencies across the country to place foster children with families who promise to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that he has filed an amicus brief calling on the courts to reverse the unconstitutional gag order against President Donald J. Trump.  In a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the gag...

Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the Kim Gardner Report, which details his successful petition in quo warranto that ousted Kimberly Gardner from office in May after she failed to prosecute violent crime in the City of St. Louis for several...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 20 states in calling for the prompt removal of foreign student visa holders who are found to have endorsed terror activity or provided material support to foreign terrorist...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -  Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office filed suit against Joe Biden’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for unlawfully approving the shipment of chemical...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office successfully defended at the Western District Court of Appeals the convictions of Vicente Roldan-Marron for first-degree murder and armed criminal action. The appeals court...

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today directed a letter to the Springfield Public Schools’ Board of Education, urging them to reject Joe Biden’s Department of Agriculture’s flawed guidance attempting to hold Missouri children’s free...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 33 states in filing suit against Meta alleging that the social-media technology giant designed and deployed harmful features for Facebook and Instagram to addict young users to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that he has recruited Branden Rathert to serve as Deputy Communications Director. “Branden has a wealth of communications experience, and I am excited he is bringing those skills to our...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey warns Missouri football fans to be wary of any suspicious ticket offerings and to take steps to protect themselves as the 2023 football season advances. “I want to educate Missourians on potential ticket...

Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey obtained a conviction for Statutory Rape in the First Degree against Brett Pendleton of Franklin County in connection to the sexual abuse of his eight-year-old daughter in 2018. Additionally, the defendant was convicted...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that he joined 12 states in challenging Massachusetts’ pork ban. The amicus brief opposes the new law, Question 3, that prohibits states from selling or shipping pork through Massachusetts...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 27 states in calling on the Biden administration to fix a catch-and-release "loophole" — calling for urgency in the wake of the terror attack in Israel. The attorneys general submitted...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Michael Herzog, the Ambassador of Israel, to showcase his office’s support for the people of Israel after the horrific terrorist attacks over the weekend. Attorney General Bailey...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - This week, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed two amicus briefs defending students' right to free speech at school. “There is currently a movement by far-left progressives who, in an attempt to force their ideology onto Americans,  are...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office, along with 49 other states, has reached a settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security in response to a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Joining Senator Hawley’s efforts to protect working families in southern Missouri, Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Donnie King, Chief Executive Officer of Tyson Foods, encouraging him to sell, rather than close, two of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a major court victory in defense of Missouri’s unborn children. After Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker sued the Attorney General to dismantle all of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against a Branson, Missouri-based company and its two owners for violating the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act in selling timeshare exit services to consumers across the country. RSI, LLC,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against Wentzville School District’s Board of Education for concealing a transgender student bathroom usage policy in direct violation of Missouri’s Open Meetings Law. After one Wentzville...

On Friday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against Southampton Community Healthcare, Inc., for providing gender transition interventions, such as puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, to minors without a comprehensive mental health assessment, as...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a multistate coalition in filing an amicus brief supporting Arkansas’ law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for minors. The brief asks the Eighth Circuit to hold an en banc...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a settlement with Tempoe, LLC, resolving a multistate investigation into Tempoe’s advertising and leasing to consumers through retailers across the nation. The investigation revealed that...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained a default judgment against Zechariah Hockersmith, and ProCare Pools, LLC, of Phelps County for falsely promising to provide pool installation and maintenance...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against Dollar General for deceptive and unfair pricing in its more than 600 retail stores throughout the state. The lawsuit asserts that Dollar General violated Missouri’s consumer...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that he has recruited Kelly King to serve as Deputy Attorney General. In this role, King will oversee the day-to-day management of Missouri’s law firm and serve as a senior adviser to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched an investigation into Liberty Safe’s policies regarding the release of customer safe codes to third parties. This investigation comes on the heels of Liberty Safe providing the Federal...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld his free speech case, Missouri v. Biden, by enjoining the White House, Surgeon General, FBI, and CDC from continuing to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office assisted the Henry County Prosecuting Attorney in obtaining a first-degree murder conviction against Ian McCarthy in connection with the 2017 murder of Clinton Police Officer...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined an 18-state coalition in filing an amicus brief supporting Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act (AEA), which protects minors from lewd and obscene behavior. A district court incorrectly ruled against...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 16 states in sounding the alarm on the China-founded, fast-fashion retailer, SHEIN’s business practices – which includes reports of forced labor – and their potential Initial Public...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a bipartisan 54-state and territory coalition urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to exploit children through child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). The states...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed a petition asking the United States Supreme Court to hear a landmark case to support the fundamental freedom of religious liberty, Missouri Department of Corrections v....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed charges against Richard B. Gillette, 51, for allegedly defrauding consumers in connection with his business, Premiere Exterior Solutions. Gillette faces one count of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office obtained the maximum possible sentence available under the law for Robert Lee Sims Jr. of Madison, Missouri, for sexually abusing and exploiting a minor over several years....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After Senate Bill 49 took effect today following a massive legal win by his office last week, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to providers across the state warning them to immediately cease experimental treatment on...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the following statement after his office successfully defended Senate Bill 49: "Missouri is the first state in the nation to successfully defend at the trial court level a law barring child...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office joined a coalition of 24 states in urging Congress to enact the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act. This bill would protect funding for school archery, hunting,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put St. Louis City Mayor Tishaura Jones on notice that her office‘s proposed legislation would violate Missourians’ constitutional right to keep and bear arms. In his letter, Attorney General Bailey...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office assisted the Boone County Prosecutor’s Office in obtaining a second-degree murder conviction against Samuel Brotherton in connection to the shooting death of his stepfather...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office joined forces with statewide agriculture groups to invite Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to Missouri after his recent comments demanding the United States...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that last week, in a win for all Americans, S&P Global Ratings shared that it would no longer publish new ESG credit indicators or update outstanding ESG credit indicators. Environmental,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office joined a 21-state coalition opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule that would impose stringent emissions standards on existing coal-, natural gas-...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office’s Cold Case Unit assisted the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney in obtaining a second-degree murder conviction in connection to the long-unsolved death of Karla Delcour in...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed additional charges against Kenneth Lee Simpson, 35, of St. Louis County, in connection with the shooting and killing of Hermann Detective Sergeant Mason Griffith and...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) unit successfully committed James Brandis to the Missouri Department of Mental Health after a Platte County jury found he met the criteria as a...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today warned consumers of scammers who may take advantage of the summer heat. With temperatures in the high 90’s, air conditioners malfunction, causing an uptick in the need for home repairs. Scammers will...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) unit successfully committed Paul Witte of St. Charles County to Missouri’s Sexual Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Services. The SVP Unit seeks...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a 25 state coalition in challenging the Biden Administration’s proposed plan to forcibly phase out gas-powered vehicles and restructure the automobile industry around electric vehicles (EVs) at a...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office joined a coalition of 13 states in warning Fortune 100 companies to immediately cease the use of racially discriminatory hiring practices. To ensure compliance with the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against tax preparation companies H&R Block, Taxslayer LLC, and TaxAct, Inc. for illegally sharing the sensitive data of Missouri taxpayers with Meta, Google and other Big Tech...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 7 states expressing legal concern that Target’s extremist “LGBTQIA+ Pride” campaign is damaging states’ efforts to safeguard citizens. In a letter, Attorney General Bailey and the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted his motion to block top officials in the federal government from continuing to violate the First Amendment...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained two major court victories in defense of Missouri's unborn children. First, his office obtained a preliminary injunction against the City of St. Louis preventing...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the United States Supreme Court has ruled in favor of his office in its challenge to the Biden Administration’s unilateral and unlawful wealth transfer of hundreds of billions of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - On the heels of the United States Supreme Court issuing two decisions declaring affirmative action policies unconstitutional, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to dozens of universities and municipalities across the state...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has obtained a default judgment against John G. Adams and his company, A-1 Construction General Contractor, LLC, for falsely promising to provide home renovation and repair...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Missouri Department of Agriculture Director Chris Chinn warn Missouri farmers and ranchers about hay scammers. Attorney General Bailey and Director Chinn want to help Missouri farmers and ranchers avoid...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, in cooperation with Her PLAN, Heartbeat International, and eight of his fellow attorneys general, hosted a multi-state donation drive to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey warns concert goers to be wary of any suspicious ticket offerings and to take steps to protect themselves ahead of Taylor Swift’s tour arriving in Kansas City, Missouri in the coming weeks. Taylor Swift...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office joined 23 other states in challenging California’s “Unsafe Handgun Act.” The amicus brief supports the California Rifle & Pistol Association’s challenge to the California...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed charges against Bobby L. Justice, 56, for allegedly defrauding consumers in connection with his business, Bobby’s Mobile Transport. Justice faces two counts of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office joined a coalition of 19 states in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) decision to allow California to illegally ban existing tractor-trailers and...

Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a suit of quo warranto to remove Iron County Sheriff Jeffery Burkett from office. “As Attorney General, I will always work to hold accountable those who refuse to do their job as required by Missouri statute,” said...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office awarded SAFE Kit Initiative Service Awards to area law enforcement agencies and community partners for their dedication towards the eradication of untested sexual assault...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined 22 other states in urging U.S. Senate leadership to pass the HALT Fentanyl Act. The legislation would permanently schedule all current and future fentanyl analogues as Schedule I drugs, giving law...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office and 41 other states have negotiated a nationwide $102.5 million settlement with Indivior Inc., the maker of opioid use disorder treatment drug Suboxone. Missouri will receive...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined an 18 state coalition in filing suit against the Biden Administration for its proposed new “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” rule which fails to mitigate the en masse illegal immigration occurring...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 48 states in filing suit against Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky, and its vice president Stacey Reeves, for sending more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted his motion to stay President Biden’s unlawful attempt to impose burdensome regulations that would hike the price of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a coalition of 16 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of two employees who sued Springfield Public Schools (SPS) for...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in opposing President Biden’s attempt to unilaterally expand executive power to raise the debt ceiling without congressional approval. This letter comes...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, urging the Board members to abide by their constitutional duty to enforce recently passed legislation to protect children from...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a conviction against Jason Wayne Baker in connection with the murder of Chelsea Conway, the mother of his two children. On Father’s Day, June 20, 2021, Baker...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the Constitution, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 18 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden Administration’s proposed standards which would regulate the types of refrigerators,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a conviction, in connection with a Boone County murder case, against Fabian Goldman. On June 10, 2020, Goldman and an accomplice...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 12 other states moved for emergency relief from the Biden Administration’s unlawful attempt to further open the southern border. This week, not only did...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the unborn, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 18 states in filing an amicus brief urging the Ohio Supreme Court to reject the legal challenge to Ohio’s Heartbeat Act, which prevents performing...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey released the following statement after the resignation of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner: "There is absolutely no reason for the Circuit Attorney to remain in office until June 1. We remain undeterred with our legal quest to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the Constitution, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 22 states in filing an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court, arguing that the First Amendment protects Jack Phillips and his business,...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained twelve felony convictions against Gilbert Silvey, Jr. for sexually abusing his step-daughter over many years. Silvey faces up to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained a conviction in Franklin County against John Swearinger for rape in the first degree. The jury recommended a prison sentence of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to affirm states’ authority to remove local prosecutors...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has obtained a judgment for $27,000 against Var-iety Auto’s, LLC, a defunct car dealership formerly of Lebanon, Missouri. Attorney General Bailey...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey recapped his first 100 days in office. He was sworn in as Missouri’s 44th Attorney General on January 3, 2023. “When sworn in as Missouri’s 44th Attorney General, I committed to protecting the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey promulgated an emergency regulation clarifying that, because gender transition interventions are experimental and have significant side effects, state law already prohibits...

In a major win for Missouri famers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota has granted his motion for preliminary injunction halting President Biden’s unconstitutional Waters of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has assisted in obtaining nine felony convictions against Shawn Kavanagh in connection with multiple murders. Kavanagh was sentenced to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the unborn, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed an amicus brief with 18 other states supporting Florida’s House Bill 5, which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation, with exceptions for life, health, and...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined 22 other states in filing an amicus brief before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supporting the rights given by Title IX for...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.- In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office successfully defended the conviction of Stephen C. Ingram for the possession of more than 20 still images...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.- In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 21 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden Administration’s proposed standards for conventional cooking products that would regulate...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office successfully defended the convictions of Bryan S. Jones at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 20 other state attorneys general warned more than 50 of the nation’s largest asset managers about Environmental, Social, and...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained thirteen felony convictions against 43 year old Frank Parry of Steele, Missouri, for sexually...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has filed twelve felony counts of Deceptive Business Practice, Stealing by Deceit and Financial Exploitation of the Elderly against Daniel...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend Missourians’ right to religious liberty, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a coalition of 19 states in filing an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court supporting the College of the Ozarks in their suit...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office secured a 33-year prison sentence in the deadly shooting of a twelve year old child. “I will always...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend Missourians’ religious liberty, Attorney General Bailey and 21 other states directed a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, urging his department to retain a provision that compels public universities to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers as tax season quickly approaches, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey warns Missourians to be aware of scammers and to take steps to protect themselves from anyone attempting to get their personal...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office obtained seven felony convictions against 56 year old Robert Lee Sims, Jr. of Madison, Missouri, for sexually...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has launched an online form where those who have experienced harm from gender transition interventions or witnessed troubling practices at...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect farmers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office successfully defended SB 391, which prevents stringent standards from being imposed on concentrated animal feeding operations, at the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the people of the City of St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today filed his amended petition in quo warranto against Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner after additional evidence has come to light. Over the past...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office is issuing an emergency regulation clarifying that, because gender transition interventions are...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office obtained a consent judgment in a case against the business owner of Puppy Love Kennel, Corey Mincey, for violating Missouri’s...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend the Second Amendment, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 18 other state attorneys general filed amicus briefs in federal court supporting Americans’ right to keep and bear arms and the right of places of worship to...

Jefferson City, Mo. – In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District upheld the conviction of Michael A. Black for the shooting and...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office secured a guilty verdict against Daymond Reeves for the 2020 murder of Allan Brewer. Reeves was sentenced...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined 45 states and the District of Columbia in asking a state court to order social media company TikTok, Inc. to fully comply with an...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that Daniel Cahill pled guilty in Warren County Circuit Court to the Class E Felony of Deceptive Business Practice and the Class D Felony of Stealing Over $750....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect Missouri consumers and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Bailey joined a coalition of seven states in shutting down a massive robocaller operation involving John Caldwell Spiller II and his business...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office filed a criminal complaint against Curtis Lee Domann, for allegedly taking money from a homeowner in Platte County, Missouri to perform home...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed a civil action against William J. Raymond for unlawful business practices. “As Attorney General, I want to enforce the laws as...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the Constitution and the guarantee of individual liberties it provides, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 21 states in filing an amicus brief before the United States Court of Appeals for the...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In order to protect the constitutional liberties of all Americans, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed their motion for a preliminary injunction in their landmark free speech lawsuit, Missouri...

EFFERSON CITY, MO – In an effort to inform and protect consumers during National Consumer Protection Week, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today the top ten consumer complaints received by his office in 2022. As a whole, the Missouri Attorney...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office filed charges against Glenn M. Jessen, 53, for allegedly defrauding twenty-four consumers in connection with his businesses, Midwest...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.- In an effort to protect women and children and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in directing more letters to five major pharmacies warning them that distribution of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect the Constitution and defend Missourians, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that the United States Supreme Court heard his challenge to the Biden administration’s unilateral and unlawful discharge of...

EFFERSON CITY, MO. – In an effort to protect the people of St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a suit (quo warranto) to remove St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner from office. “As Attorney General, I want to protect the people of St....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit with 23 other attorneys general against the Biden administration’s “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule that attempts to unconstitutionally...

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. – In an effort to protect the people of St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding the resignation of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner by noon on February 23, or face immediate removal proceedings in the form of a...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to set an execution date for Brian Dorsey. Two days before Christmas in 2006, Dorsey’s...

Feb 20, 2023, 11:21 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In an effort to protect Missourians’ religious freedoms, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 19 other attorneys general directed a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director...

Feb 17, 2023, 09:48 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to defend the Constitution, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that he filed suit with a coalition of 25 attorneys general against the Biden Administration’s U.S. Attorney...

Feb 17, 2023, 18:57 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children across the state, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today issued the following statement after the pediatric transgender center in St. Louis refused to implement a...

Feb 15, 2023, 13:41 PM by AG Bailey In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed an amicus brief with 17 other attorneys general supporting an injunction against a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) rule that forces...

Feb 14, 2023, 09:32 AM by AG Bailey Jefferson City, Mo. – In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect consumers, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office obtained convictions against Blake Mahoney for Financial Exploitation of the...

Feb 13, 2023, 11:10 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect women and children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed an amicus brief in a highly watched lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration for...

Feb 10, 2023, 15:27 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to protect children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Trish Lollo, President of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and Dr. Andrew Martin, Chancellor of Washington University...

Feb 9, 2023, 15:03 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Now that the whistleblower has gone public with her allegations about the Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey confirms that two weeks ago the...

Feb 8, 2023, 13:37 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined 24 attorneys general in sending a letter to Yelp opposing the company's practice of discriminating against pro-life...

Feb 7, 2023, 17:33 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to support the counties and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office obtained convictions against Danisha Price of Ripley County for involuntary...

Feb 3, 2023, 11:08 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey recapped his first month in office. He was sworn in as Missouri’s 44th Attorney General on January 3, 2023. “When sworn in as Missouri’s 44th Attorney General, I...

Feb 1, 2023, 08:14 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to uphold the laws as written and defend the welfare of women and unborn children, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a coalition of 20 state attorneys general to CVS and Walgreens...

Jan 31, 2023, 15:39 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written and protect children throughout the state, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Missouri School Board Association (MSBA) Executive Director...

Jan 30, 2023, 15:15 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and six other attorneys general sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan and...

Jan 26, 2023, 16:58 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 24 other state attorneys general filed suit over a Department of Labor rule that would allow 401(k) managers to direct...

Jan 25, 2023, 16:12 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and 19 other state attorneys general filed suit against the Biden Administration over a new Department of Homeland Security...

Jan 24, 2023, 10:09 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In an effort to enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 21 state attorneys general in firing off a letter to two proxy advisory companies, International...

Jan 20, 2023, 16:41 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.- In an effort to protect children throughout the state, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Superintendent of Columbia Public Schools, Brian Yearwood, and Mayor of the City of Columbia,...

Jan 19, 2023, 08:04 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.- In an effort to protect the Constitution, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 22 state attorneys general in sending a letter to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration,...

Jan 12, 2023, 09:45 AM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.- In a major win for consumers, Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his Office has obtained a consent judgment against Vacation Consulting Services, LLC; VCS Communications, LLC; The Transfer...

Jan 9, 2023, 17:26 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - In order to protect the constitutional liberties of all Americans, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey continues to pursue litigation in Missouri v. Biden, a civil case demonstrating that top officials in...

Jan 9, 2023, 12:43 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that he has recruited Maddie McMillian Green to serve as Deputy Attorney General for Policy. In this role, Green will handle policy, legislation, and...

Jan 9, 2023, 12:37 PM by AG Bailey JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Andrew Bailey was sworn in as Missouri’s 44th Attorney General today in a ceremony at the Missouri Supreme Court Building. During his remarks, he outlined his goals for the Office, emphasizing his commitment to...