Attorney General Lynn Fitch shared her five-part agenda for the 2025 Legislative Session, which includes bills to empower Mississippi families, secure our communities, advance election integrity,safeguard children’s health, and protect public funds.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch delivered the following testimony during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing where she discussed the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for the Attorney General’s Office
Attorney General Lynn Fitch delivered Emergency Overdose Boxes to partners across the Jackson Metro area as partof her One Pill Can Kill campaign, a public awareness initiative to educate,support, and empower Mississippians with information on the dangers offentanyl, how to identify it, and what to do if someone is overdosing.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch warned Mississippians to be aware of unsolicited “missed delivery” notification scamsas they increase this holiday season.“
Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined a coalition of 30 current and future state attorneys general in urging the United States Senate toswiftly confirm Pam Bondi as the 87th United States Attorney General.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch, incollaboration with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN) and the Andrew Jackson Council of the Boy Scouts of America, hosted Scout Out Opioids, aprogram to raise awareness with Scouts and their families of the dangers of opioids and offer techniques for reducing opioid abuse and misuse for themand their loved ones.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch applauded anorder of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, haltingnationwide enforcement of a rule amending H-2A visa program regulationsthat would have brought labor unions onto American farms and ranches.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced the completion of an operation conducted by the Attorney General’s Fentanyl Strike Force on November 21, 2024, which resulted in four arrests in DeSoto County related to the sale of a controlled substance and possession of acontrolled substance.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch and a bipartisan coalition of 46 attorneys general called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve their Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) and close what has effectively been an unmonitored loophole that bad actors exploit to access the U.S. telephone network.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 17 other attorneys general, toprotect students’ First Amendment free speech rights. The brief from theattorneys general asks the Supreme Court to hear L.M. v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Attorney General Fitch joined a coalition of overthirty state attorneys general announcing the completion of settlementagreements with Kroger, addressing the grocery chain’s role in the opioid crisis.Mississippi will receive up to $10,625,387 out of a $1.37-billion settlement,with payments anticipated to begin early next year.
Attorney General Fitch joined a coalition of50 states and territories announcing two significant cooperation agreementsand settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million to resolve allegations that both companies engaged in widespread,long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reducecompetition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous genericprescription drugs.
On Monday, Attorney General Fitch joined attorneys general from 25 states in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Courtto allow Virginia to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch sent a letter to iDentidad Advertising Development LLC, also known as iDentidad Telecom,warning the company that it is transmitting suspected illegal robocall trafficand should stop immediately or face legal consequences.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch delivered the following testimony during the Senate Study Group on Women, Children, and Familieshearing where she discussed her Empowerment Project and gave a preview of her legislative priorities in the 2025 Session.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch celebrated the first anniversary of Mississippi Access to Maternal Assistance (MAMA), a free website and mobile app that connects pregnant women and mothers to private,public and faith-based resources available across the state.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch has joined Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and 27 other states in filing an amicus briefwith the Supreme Court of the United States in defense of the Second Amendment.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced therecent sentencings of Bruce Cherry, Jr. of Taylorsville, Mississippi; JamesWilder, of Carthage, Mississippi; and John Dunn, of Biloxi, Mississippi.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit of Appeals urging the Court to vacate the preliminary injunction rulinggranted in July, which blocked HB 1126, the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act, passed without a single "no" vote from theLegislature, from taking effect.
