Attorney General Mark Brnovich is taking up Senate President Karen Fann on her request for an investigation into the findings of the Cyber Ninjas’ audit report.
Read More »Brnovich to probe Maricopa County’s 2020 election
Bill gives Legislature some control of utility regulators
The Arizona Corporation Commission may be the next branch of government that legislators can force the Attorney General to investigate.
Read More »The Breakdown: Off the rails
A railroad safety bill that earned one Democratic lawmaker an ominous threat three years ago will be back next year, and the stakes are higher than ever.
Read More »Republican lawmaker takes aim at public schools
Rep. Kelly Townsend wants school district employees and board members investigated at the whim of any legislator who questions the legality of their policies.
Read More »Tempe, AG agree to settle tax-rate dispute 
The City of Tempe will no longer be able to use a 2010 resolution the mayor and council adopted to offer favorable tax incentives to private developers.
Read More »Stage set for lawsuit over conflict of state law, Tempe ballot measure 
Gov. Doug Ducey signed off on Tempe’s “dark money” ballot initiative, a move that will likely open up the state to a lawsuit.
Read More »The Breakdown, Episode 6: Details, details
After two weeks in one crisis or another, lawmakers really got to work last week, and our reporters dug in.
Read More »Legislators’ complaints of lawbreaking by cities on the upswing
Bisbee is one of eight municipalities or counties in the state whose laws have been targeted by state legislators under SB1487, a 2016 law that allows any state legislator to ask the attorney general to investigate an ordinance.
Read More »AG finds Tempe might have violated state law in lease deal 
The Attorney General’s Office has found that while a lease agreement the city of Tempe signed with a hotel developer does not violate state law, another agreement signed with a regional bank branch might.
Read More »Leach sics AG on Tempe over allegation of illegal tax breaks 
Rep. Vince Leach has followed through on a threat to ask the Attorney General’s Office to investigate whether Tempe broke the law in signing two lease agreements with developers he alleges received illegal tax breaks.
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