Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and the Rhode Island Children’s Network, a program of Day One, today announced a joint statewide multidisciplinary conference titled Unfettered Access which will focus on the growing challenges of keeping children safe in the digital age. The event will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at Harbor Lights in Warwick.
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Attorney General Neronha will today join a coalition representing 22 states and the District of Columbia in suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for illegally ending a $7 billion program that lowers energy costs and pollution by bringing solar energy to more than 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities across the country.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Warwick man has been sentenced in Washington County Superior Court to serve seven years at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) for driving under the influence and causing a crash that killed 53-year-old Linda Sherman in 2024.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced today that a Pawtucket man has been sentenced in Providence County Superior Court to serve 11 years at the Adult Corrections Institutions (ACI) for multiple counts of child molestation.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced that following the filing of a lawsuit, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has now dropped its plan to impose illegal conditions on nearly $1.4 billion in Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grants.
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Attorney General Neronha today co-led a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today announced his decision to conditionally suspend the Office’s investigation into the merger between Brown University Health’s physician organization, Brown Health Medical Group (BHMG), and Brown Physicians Inc. under the Office’s antitrust review authority.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit in Rhode Island federal court to stop the Trump Administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha today joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general in suing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for threatening to pull funding for longstanding teen reproductive and sexual health education programs from states unless they remove language concerning gender identity.
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Attorney General Peter F. Neronha joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania in filing a motion for a preliminary injunction to block the Trump Administration from enforcing the “Defund Provision” within the recently enacted federal budget bill (“Big Beautiful Bill”). The Defund Provision excludes certain health centers, including Planned Parenthood health centers, from receiving federal Medicaid reimbursements. Among other things, these centers provide essential healthcare services to low-income patients, such as cancer screenings, testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and birth control.
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