2021 Press Releases

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• 12/2/2021 Attorney General Tong Aids Consumers with COVID-19 Travel Concerns, Shares Guidance as Variants Impact Travel

  Attorney General William Tong has received over 1,000 complaints and helped recover approximately $1.9 million for consumers regarding disrupted travel plans due to COVID-19. With new variants and rising case numbers triggering additional travel restrictions worldwide, Attorney General Tong urged consumers to carefully review terms and agreements before making travel plans.

• 6/22/2021 Attorney General Tong Calls on USPS to Stop Further Service Cuts

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a group of 21 attorneys general and two cities calling on the Postal Regulatory Commission to oppose Postmaster General DeJoy’s efforts to increase delivery times for First-Class Mail and other essential postal services.

• 10/27/2021 AG Tong Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Halt Unconstitutional Texas Abortion Ban

  Following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that it will hear two challenges to Texas’ unconstitutional six-week abortion ban, Senate Bill 8 (S.B. 8), Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general asking the Court to block the ban from going into effect and allow challenges to the ban to proceed.

• 10/27/2021 Attorney General Tong Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Florida's Firearm Age Regulation

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul in defending a Florida law prohibiting the sale of firearms to people under the age of 21. In an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the coalition argues that states have the right to enact reasonable, age-based firearm regulations that protect public safety and reduce the prevalence of gun violence.

• 3/19/2021 Attorney General Tong Moves for State Custody of 65 Neglected Goats

  Attorney General William Tong has moved for permanent state custody of 65 injured and neglected goats seized from Redding resident Nancy Burton earlier this month.

• 3/17/2021 Attorney General Tong Statement on Violence Against Asian Americans

  Attorney General William Tong released a statement regarding violence against Asian-Americans following the murder of eight people in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian.

• 7/15/2021 Attorneys General Respond to Arrest of Hervis Rogers in Texas for Voting

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of seven attorneys general from around the nation, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, in releasing the following joint statement regarding the arrest of Hervis Rogers on charges of voting in the 2020 Texas Democratic primary while on parole:

• 7/7/2021 AG Tong Sues Google For Antitrust Violations Over App Store

  Bipartisan Coalition of States Say Google Illegally Maintains an App Store Monopoly; Unfairly Edges Out Competition

• 7/7/2021 Attorney General Tong Applauds Signing of Bill to Strengthen Civil Rights Enforcement in Connecticut

  Attorney General William Tong today applauded the signing of legislation that will strengthen civil rights enforcement in Connecticut.

• 6/18/2021 Attorney General Tong and Coalition of 52 AGs Urge Congress to Provide States with the Same Antitrust Venue Rights as Federal Enforcers

  Attorney General William Tong and The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) are urging Congress to pass the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act of 2021. This legislation would provide states with the same venue selection rights as federal enforcers by prohibiting the transfer of state antitrust actions into a multidistrict litigation.

• 5/18/2021 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition in Support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Effort to Undo Trump-Era Title X Gag Rule

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general today in submitting a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) applauding the agency for its Proposed Rule to undo the Trump-Pence Administration’s harmful 2019 Title X Gag Rule.

• 11/16/2021 Attorney General Tong Urges Efforts to Stop Robocallers From Misusing Legitimate Phone Numbers

  Attorney General William Tong this week wrote the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in support of its efforts to reduce illegal robocallers’ access to legitimate phone numbers to make unending robocalls that scam people out of their hard-earned money.

• 6/14/2021 AG Tong Urges NHTSA To Repeal Trump-Era Attack On California Authority To Set Clean Car Standards

  — Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 22 states and 4 cities in urging the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) to repeal a Trump-era rule, known as the “Preemption Rule,” that purported to preempt California’s greenhouse gas and zero-emission-vehicles (ZEV) standards.

• 3/18/2021 Attorney General Tong Urges Federal Passage of the Keeping All Students Safe Act

  Legislation Would Ban Seclusion and Life-Threatening Restraint Practices in Elementary and Secondary Schools

• 5/4/2021 AG Tong and AG Racine Host Landmark National Convening on Combating Anti-AAPI Hate

  Today, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) President and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine co-hosted a landmark national convening with the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) on countering anti-AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) hate.