Office of the Utah Attorney General

Official Twitter account of Office of the Utah Attorney General. Upholding the Constitution and protecting Utahns, under the leadership of AG Derek Brown.

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BYU and Utah deserve honest competition. @govcox and I stand behind the Big 12 and support its right to enforce its own rules.

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America didn't justify its existence with conquest or bloodlines. It justified itself with an idea.

Two hundred fifty years later, that idea is still calling us.

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The Tenth Circuit just ruled: Utah's challenge to the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante designations moves forward.

The Antiquities Act protects the smallest area around a treasure, not every acre for miles. Utah will make that case in court.

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Block, Inc. will pay $45 million over deceptive practices on Cash App.

The company told users their money was safe while fraud on the platform rose sharply, then failed to investigate unauthorized transactions or issue refunds required by law.

Utah joined the multistate settlement announced by Attorney General Derek Brown.

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Former judge convicted for targeting minors online.

Three charged in $951,000 Medicaid fraud scheme.

Joined 17 states to block California's plastics law.

Price-fixing egg producers settle. 125,000 cartons headed to Utah food banks.

The work continues.

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Three egg producers, Cal-Maine Foods, Versova Holdings, and Hickman's Family Farms, manipulated benchmark prices through fake bids and coordinated pricing strategies.

The Office joined the DOJ and 16 states. The settlement delivers 53 million eggs to families in need and five years of court-enforced competition rules.

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Today's proclamations move Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante closer to the Antiquities Act's "smallest area compatible" standard, the position the Office has argued in court for years.

Lands outside the new boundaries stay public, and existing federal law still protects them.

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Kathy Davis spent 14 years as an Assistant Attorney General fighting for Utah's public lands. R.S. 2477 litigation, federal overreach, resource management, tribal water rights. She leaves as Section Director of the Public Lands Section and takes 40 years of legal experience with her.

The Office of the Utah Attorney General is better for her service. We wish her well.

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Two hundred and fifty years ago, a country was born — imperfect, ambitious, and full of possibility.

It has grown, changed, and been tested in ways those first Americans couldn't have imagined. And it is still here, still standing, still worth celebrating.

Happy 250th Birthday, America!

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Utah veterans can get free legal help.

Utah@EASE connects veterans and service members with free legal counsel at no cost to those who served. OAG attorney Larry Schmidt helped launch Utah@EASE in 2018 after retiring from the military, growing it from a handful of volunteer attorneys to 83.

300 veterans came to Utah@EASE in 2025. The program is on track to serve 400 in 2026.

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Since October 1, the Utah AG Office's Cooperative Disability Investigations Unit has closed 64 cases, recovered $3.8 million in SSA program savings, and identified $1.3 million in Medicaid and Medicare savings.

In 2025, the unit ranked first in the country.

More to come.

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Utah joined 16 other states in suing to block California's Plastics Act — a law that conditions access to the nation's largest consumer market on compliance with California's own packaging mandates. Because plastic packaging touches virtually every industry, businesses face a stark choice: redesign operations nationwide or forfeit California sales. Either way, costs rise — and as always, low-income consumers absorb them first. Utah didn't pick this fight. California brought it to us. Our sovereignty is worth defending in court.

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The Emancipation Proclamation took effect January 1, 1863. The last enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas heard the news June 19, 1865 — 929 days later.

The Office of the Utah Attorney General honors Juneteenth and the history that date carries.

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If you can't afford a lawyer, the legal system shouldn't be closed to you.

Attorney General Brown joined 39 bipartisan attorneys general urging Congress to keep funding the Legal Services Corporation — the program that provides free legal help to Americans who can't afford it. Every dollar invested returns seven in community benefits.

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The fight against Medicaid fraud is changing. Utah is helping define what comes next.

Utah’s Medicaid Fraud and Patient Abuse Division Director Kaye Lynn Wootton presented at the NAAG Chief Deputies and Chief of Staff Seminar, addressing how the environment surrounding Medicaid Fraud Control Units is shifting nationwide.

Wootton also serves as NAMFCU President. Utah's perspective is shaping the national response.

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Prediction markets are running sportsbooks under a different label.

They take wagers from 18-year-olds and skip the licensing, exclusion lists, and consumer protections that states have built over more than a century.

Utah co-sponsored an effort later joined by 40 other attorneys general urging the CFTC to confirm what the law already says: sports gambling regulation belongs to the states.

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Kevin Christensen, a former Utah judge who sent explicit material to a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old online, has been convicted on three felony charges.

He was sentenced today to three consecutive terms of zero-to-five years for each third-degree felony.

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The Attorney General Student Council met for the last time this year.

This cohort of Utah high schoolers spent the past year learning firsthand how the law protects Utahns, and what changes are facing the state. They asked hard questions. They showed up.

Utah's next generation of leaders came through here.

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Our prosecutors, attorneys, law enforcement, and staff recently went through a Board of Pardons and Parole simulation. The more our team understands the full system, the better we do our jobs.

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We don't just prosecute cases. We invest in understanding every part of the justice system they move through.

Prosecutors, attorneys, law enforcement officers, and office staff took part in a Board of Pardons and Parole simulation, stepping into one of the hardest decisions in criminal justice to better understand the full arc of the work we do.

The more our team understands the whole system, the better we serve Utah.