In 2025, organizations across North Carolina continued to report data breaches affecting businesses, schools, government agencies, and nonprofits in our state. A record-setting total of 2,349 data breaches were reported to the North Carolina Department of Justice (NCDOJ), impacting 9,275,938 North Carolinians. Many North Carolinians’ information was compromised in more than one breach. In North […]
For Immediate Release: June 16, 2025 North Carolina will receive nearly $150 million RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today announced that 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, agreed to sign on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. The North Carolina Department of […]
To the families of North Carolina’s law enforcement officers: This letter is for you. You may not wear the uniform, but you serve alongside it. You live the long nights, the missed calls, the held breath when something doesn’t feel right. Your loved one puts themselves in harm’s way to protect others – and you […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, December 1, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement as Medicaid expansion goes into effect in North Carolina. “At long last, Medicaid is finally expanded in North Carolina and more than 600,000 of our friends and neighbors will have access to life-saving […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, November 6, 2023 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that North Carolina’s price gouging law is in effect in Henderson County after the county declared a state of emergency on November 5, 2023, related to the recent wildfires in western North Carolina. Please report potential […]
Attorney General Josh Stein and the NC Department of Justice are working hard to keep kids safe. Youth today face a variety of challenges – some that may be familiar to parents and many that simply did not exist in generations past, before fentanyl, cell phones, and social media existed. Earlier this year, Attorney General […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, December 12, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 Brings total recoveries from drug industry to more than $50 billion (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has finalized agreements with CVS and Walgreens to bring the national amount from investigations and litigation against the pharmaceutical industry for its role in […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, November 28, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement in response to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ (NCDHHS) decision to approve AdventHealth’s Certificate of Need application for acute care beds in western North Carolina. “Competition in health care […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein filed testimony with the North Carolina Utilities Commission calling for a stronger, affordable clean energy approach than the one proposed by Duke Energy. Attorney General Stein is pushing for an alternative carbon plan that would dramatically reduce carbon emissions […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, August 19, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Haaland v. Brackeen urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge to longstanding protections guaranteed to Native American children, their families, and tribal communities under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). “Protecting our kids is job one for the […]