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		<title>February 14, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opinion concerning whether Defendant is required to register as a sex offender. Requested by Mark Keel, Chief, State Law Enforcement Division Read full opinion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6351</link>
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		<title>Wilson, Law Enforcement Leaders Announce Law Enforcement Legislative Agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Alan Wilson joined South Carolina&#8217;s Sixteen Solictors, Forty-Six Sheriffs, and SLED Chief Mark Keel in announcing an unprecedented cooperation aimed at passing the 2012 Law Enforcement Legislative Agenda. Review the Agenda here:  2012 Law Enforcement Legislative Agenda]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6333</link>
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		<title>Summer 2012 Law Clerk Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office offers a law clerk program for students enrolled in an accredited law school. Law Clerks will have an opportunity to gain hands-on knowledge of the Office while conducting research, providing administrative support, and attending court hearings, depositions, or trials as schedules permit. Law Clerks must work at least 15 but no more than 30 hours per week during the summer. Application Process: Interested applicants must submit the following: State of South Carolina employment application (located at the following link:) PDF File of State Application Cover Letter Resume Applicants should upload each document to the...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6327</link>
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		<title>AG Wilson Announces Arrest in $360,000 Aiken County Securities Fraud Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia, S.C. - February 13, 2012 Attorney General Alan Wilson today announced that David H. Thompson, of 348 Sudlow Road, North Augusta, South Carolina, was arrested on Thursday, February 9, 2012, on charges related to Securities Fraud by the Aiken County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. Wilson, in his role as South Carolina Securities Commissioner, issued a civil order against Thompson ordering him to cease and desist from violations of the South Carolina Securities Act and ordering him to pay a $10,000 fine. Thompson was charged with two (2) counts of breach of trust, and one (1) count of forgery in arrest warrants...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6317</link>
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		<title>AGs Stand Up for Religious Liberty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia &#8211; Attorney General Alan Wilson today joined attorneys general from the states of Nebraska, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma  in opposition to a recently announced federal mandate upon religious entities.  The mandate, proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, requires religious employers that provide health insurance coverage to their employees to include coverage for contraceptives, sterilization, and related services. The attorneys general wrote a letter to the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor, informing them that if such a mandate is promulgated, the states...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6302</link>
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		<title>South Carolina Joins State-Federal Mortgage Servicing &#8220;Settlement In Principle&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Columbia, S.C. &#8211; February 9, 2012 &#8211; Attorney General Alan Wilson today announced South Carolina is included in a joint federal-state &#8220;settlement in principle&#8221; with the nation&#8217;s five largest mortgage servicers that addresses foreclosure abuses, fraud, and unacceptable nationwide mortgage servicing practices. &#8220;Settlement in Principle&#8221; reflects the fact that a final document has not been presented to the states. &#8220;This &#8216;settlement in principle&#8217; provides certain protections for consumers dealing with the difficult issue of mortgage foreclosure,&#8221; said Wilson. &#8220;It also provides certain guidelines for how these mortgage servicers should operate going forward.&#8221; State Attorneys General Component The settlement puts in...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6307</link>
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		<title>February 6, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An opinion regarding whether the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (&#8220;FERPA&#8221;) prohibits a school district from sharing information on crimes committed in the schools with the sheriff&#8217;s department. Requested by:  The Honorable Leon Lott, Sheriff, Richland County Read full opinion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6297</link>
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		<title>S.C. Files Legal Challenge to DOJ’s Denial of Voter I.D. Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Alan Wilson today filed a lawsuit in United State District Court against the federal government and the head of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Attorney General Eric Holder. The DOJ has refused to allow South Carolina to enact its Voter I.D. law, claiming it does not adequately protect voters from discrimination, per the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  However, very similar laws have been upheld by the United States Supreme Court (in the case of Indiana), and even pre-cleared by the DOJ itself (in the case of Georgia). The state’s Voter I.D. law was passed in 2011, and...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6289</link>
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		<title>January 31, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opinion regarding whether a school district can establish a year-round calendar that starts in mid-July. Requested by:  Russell W. Booker, Ph.D. Superintendent, Spartanburg School District 7 Read full opinion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6284</link>
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		<title>Internet Crimes Task Force Finding Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Ghosts haunt crooks on line Internet crimes task force finding success By LaDonna Beeker The Journal OCONEE COUNTY — Westminster Police Sgt. Gordon Hopkins starts his computer, turns on the recording program and signs in to a Yahoo music chat room. Today, he is a 12-year-old female. Minutes later a 26-year-old male supposedly living in Miami, Fla., begins a chat. “ASL?” asks the adult male, after his initial “hey” and “what’s up?” It’s a chat acronym to ask another person’s age, sex and location. “I tell them the minor age, and sometimes they leave at that point or they...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scag.gov/archives/6279</link>
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