COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 20 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced updates in the Prison Empire investigation after a special term of court for the State Grand Jury during the week of June 24, 2024, in Pickens County. Jennifer Nicole Burns, a major target of the Prison Empire and Las Senoritas investigation, pleaded guilty to her charges in the Prison Empire investigation on the morning of trial. Bu  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 20 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on July 18, 2024: Attorney General Alan Wilson led a 12-state coalition that filed a brief Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in a case about protecting parental rights. The brief asks the Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court that dismissed a lawsuit brought by a parent when a school allegedly helped a student with their gender transition without the parent  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 20 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on July 19, 2024: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson today joined a 22-state amicus brief in support of Florida's request to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to allow the state to enforce its law regulating sex-modification procedures while the district court's order enjoining the law is heard on appeal. The case is Doe v. Surgeon General, State of Florida. Like half the sta  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 19 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that a court ruling in Kansas will temporarily block the Biden administration's new Title IX Rule from being implemented at some South Carolina schools, colleges, and universities. The Biden administration has reinterpreted Title IX's prohibitions on sex discrimination to include "gender identity." Although South Carolina is not a party to this suit  more