Category: Ohio Attorney General

Ohio Governor DeWine Awards $3.7 Million to Help Law Enforcement Combat Violence

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today awarded more than $3.7 million to 21 local law enforcement agencies to help them strategically combat violence in...

On Earth Day, AG Yost Showcases Successes of Environmental Team in Special Report

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Mention the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, and many Ohioans are likely to think of its consumer protection efforts, the fight to...

Attorney General Yost Opens Application Process for Drug Use Prevention Grants for Next School Year

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is accepting applications for $2.66 million in grant funding for local law enforcement agencies to provide...

Judge Puts the Screws to Northeast Ohio Home-Improvement Contractor

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — A longtime home-improvement contractor who deceived dozens of his customers and then repeatedly flouted a judge’s injunction has been held in...

2021 Capital Crimes Report Issued by Attorney General Yost

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today issued the 2021 Capital Crimes Annual Report, which includes information and a procedural history on each...

AG Yost Expands Advanced Training for Police Officers by Offering Classes Close to Home

Burton and Twinsburg, OH - The Ohio Attorney General recently announced Kent State University and its College of Applied and Technical Studies (CATS) joins four other...

AG Yost Provides Nationally Recognized School Threat Assessment Training

Money Still Available for Schools and Officers (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — An effective way of dealing with school violence is to stop it before it happens,...

AG Yost Releases the 2022 ‘Yellow Book,’ Celebrates Government Transparency

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — As part of his continuing efforts to promote government transparency, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today released the 2022 edition of...

Grant Funding Available for ‘John Schools’

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Organizations interested in developing or expanding a sex buyer education program – commonly called a “john school” – are encouraged to...

AG Yost Joins Lawsuit Seeking Records Involving Federal Intimidation of Parents

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has joined 13 other states in a lawsuit that seeks to determine how the federal government...

Governor DeWine Bans Purchases of Russian Goods and Services, Directs Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to Divest Russian Assets

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Today Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement regarding further action that the state of Ohio is taking following Russian President Vladimir...

Attorney General Issues 2021 Conceal Carry Report

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost today issued Ohio’s Law on Concealed Handguns annual report showing that 202,920 concealed carry licenses were...

Illegal Dumping Investigation Yields Three Indictments in Northeast Ohio

(AKRON, Ohio) — A Summit County grand jury this week indicted two men and a junk-removal business in connection with illegal dumping in Copley Township, Attorney...

Former FirstEnergy Executives Reindicted on Public Corruption Charges

(AKRON, Ohio) — Two former FirstEnergy executives have been reindicted for their alleged roles in the House Bill 6 scandal involving the Akron-based electric utility, Ohio Attorney...

Yost Sues Northeast Ohio Contractor Accused of Shoddy, Incomplete Home Improvements

(WARREN, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing a Mahoning Valley contractor who allegedly performed substandard home-improvement work or failed to complete...

Yost Sues Online Seller of Model Trains for Failure to Deliver Products

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing a Brecksville man accused of taking consumers’ money for collectible model trains that he...

Yost’s Office Defends EdChoice as Case Reaches Appeals Court

(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office today led the state’s defense of the EdChoice Scholarship Program during oral arguments before the...