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Attorney General Murrill joins bipartisan coalition backing legislation to curb contraband cell phones in prisons

Attorney General Murrill joined a bipartisan coalition of 30 attorneys general calling on Congress to pass H.R. H.R. 2350 and S. 1137, federal legislation allowing states to deploy cell phone jamming systems in prisons.

3/28/2025

Westwego man arrested by Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents for Molestation of a Juvenile and other hands-on offenses

Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation have arrested a Westwego man on March 27, 2025 on multiple disturbing charges

3/28/2025

Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents arrest Marrero man for Pornography Involving Juveniles

Agnets with Attorney General Liz Murrill's Office arrested Eugene Archie IV on March 25.

3/27/2025

State of Louisiana defends 2024 Congressional Map at Supreme Court, which added a Second Majority-Black District

Supreme Court of the United States State of Louisiana V. Phillip Callais, ET AL.

3/22/2025

Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrests man for Sexual Abuse of Animals and Pornography Involving Juveniles

Attorney General Liz Murrill's Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a Monroe man on March 21, 2025.

3/21/2025

Attorney General Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrests Pineville man for Pornography Involving Juveniles

Agents with the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation of Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office arrested a man from Pineville on March 20, 2025.

3/21/2025

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill joins defense of President Trump’s efforts to deport violent Tren De Aragua gang

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill joined a coalition of 26 attorneys general in defending the Trump administration’s recent actions to combat Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

3/19/2025

Agents with Attorney General Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrest Shreveport man for Pornography Involving Juveniles

Attorney General Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents made an arrest on March 19, 2025.

3/19/2025

Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents arrest woman from Convent for Pornography Involving Juveniles

Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a woman from Convent on March 17, 2025.

3/19/2025

Attorney General Liz Murrill Statement on the execution of convicted rapist and murderer Jessie Hoffman

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following statement tonight after the execution of Jessie Hoffman at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

3/18/2025

Agents with Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrest Lake Charles man for more than 105 counts of Possession and Distribution of Pornography Involving Juveniles

Agents with Attorney General Liz Murrill's Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrested a Lake Charles man on multiple charges on March 12, 2025.

3/12/2025

Attorney General Murrill warns Louisiana residents about fake toll scam texts

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is warning the public about a nationwide phishing scam.

3/10/2025

Agents with General Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrest Houma man after undercover chat operation

Agents with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation arrested a man from Houma on March 6, 2025.

3/7/2025

Attorney General Murrill Files Opposition Brief Defending Execution of Jessie Hoffman

On the night before Thanksgiving Day in 1996, Jessie Hoffman kidnapped, robbed, and raped Mary “Molly” Elliot. He then marched her—still naked—“down a dirt path which was overgrown with vegetation and in an area full of trash used as a dump.”

3/5/2025

Letter to POTUS on Suspension/Revocation of Risk Management and Financial Assurance for OCS Lease and Grant Obligations

As the chief legal officers of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, we look forward to working with the Trump administration to reverse the harmful policies of the Biden administration that threaten our State’s economy and jeopardizing our shared goal of restoring the country to a position of “Energy Dominance” that President Trump achieved in his first term and instituting an American Energy Golden Age.

2/27/2025

Attorney General Liz Murrill gives update on lawsuit against Biden Era attempt to categorize ‘Gender Dysphoria’ and ‘Transgenderism’ as a Disability and threatens loss of federal funding

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued an update to a lawsuit she joined back in September 2024 with 16 other attorneys general challenging an unlawful Biden administration rule that would redefine ‘gender dysphoria’ as a disability and allow the federal government to withhold funds for those with disabilities from anyone who disagree with the rule.

2/19/2025

Attorney General Liz Murrill files lawsuit against sanctuary policies in Orleans Parish

Today, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed legal action in federal court against “sanctuary” policies in New Orleans.

2/13/2025