Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Reach­es Agree­ment Requir­ing Travis Coun­ty to Abide by the Texas Open Meet­ings Act and Oth­er Gov­ern­ment Trans­paren­cy Laws

Attorney General Ken Paxton has reached an agreed final judgment with the Travis County Commissioners Court, ensuring that they will comply with the Texas Open Meetings Act and other government transparency laws.

May 14, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Takes Action Against Gen­er­al Mills as Part of Inves­ti­ga­tion into the Com­pa­ny for Vio­la­tions of Texas Law

Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent General Mills, Inc. (“General Mills”) a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) as part of a new investigation into the food company for illegal misrepresentations of its food products as “healthy.”

May 13, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures His­toric $1.375 Bil­lion Set­tle­ment with Google Relat­ed to Tex­ans’ Data Pri­va­cy Rights

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a $1.375 billion settlement in principle with Google, delivering a historic win for Texans’ data privacy and security rights and marking the highest recovery nationwide against Google for any attorney general’s enforcement of state privacy laws.

May 09, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Pro­tects Texas Envi­ron­ment and Secures $60 Mil­lion Judg­ment Against Recy­cling Com­pa­ny Dump­ing Chem­i­cals into River

Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a judgment of more than $60 million against David Polston and his companies, Inland Environmental and Remediation, Inland Recycling, and Boundary Ventures, for illegally dumping pollutants in Texas waterways and lands.

May 09, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Announces Six Indict­ments and Arrests in Frio Coun­ty for Ille­gal Vote Har­vest­ing Scheme

Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the indictments and arrests of six people, including several public officials, for election crimes related to a vote harvesting scheme in Frio County.

May 07, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Resolves Law­suit with Cop­pell ISD After Ensur­ing that Woke Crit­i­cal Race The­o­ry Will Not Be Taught in The District

Attorney General Ken Paxton has resolved a lawsuit against Coppell Independent School District (“ISD”) after the ISD voluntarily took measures to ensure that unlawful critical race theory (“CRT”) will not be taught in its classrooms.

May 06, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Takes Legal Action Against Chi­nese Com­pa­nies Vio­lat­ing Tex­ans’ Pri­va­cy Rights

Attorney General Ken Paxton has put TP-Link, Alibaba, CapCut, and several other Chinese and Chinese Communist Party (“CCP”) aligned companies on notice that they are violating Texans’ privacy rights.

May 06, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sends Let­ter to the U.S. Sen­ate in Sup­port of Con­firm­ing Ed Mar­tin as U.S. Attor­ney for the Dis­trict of Columbia

Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a multistate letter to U.S. Senate leaders in support of President Trump’s nomination of Ed Martin to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

May 05, 2025 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Takes Legal Action Against Austin ISD for Teach­ing Rad­i­cal, Anti-Amer­i­can Crit­i­cal Race The­o­ry in Vio­la­tion of State Law

Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against Austin Independent School District (“ISD”) for violating state law by teaching woke critical race theory (“CRT”).

May 05, 2025 | Press Release