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RI assistant attorney general to be placed on unpaid leave following Newport body cam incident

A Special Assistant Attorney General with the office of Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha will be placed on unpaid ...

Assistant AG, who berated officers during her arrest in Newport, placed on unpaid leave.

Body camera footage from the arrest has reached national news. Flanagan will go on unpaid leave starting Aug. 22.

Rhode Island AG Neronha sues over Trump immigration conditions on crime victim grants

Neronha co-led a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Aug. 18 over immigration conditions put on funds used to support ...

Neronha co-leads lawsuit against Trump over conditions on grant for crime victims

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha is set to announce additional action against the Trump Administration on Monday.
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McKee, Neronha ignore Trump administration's threats over RI 'sanctuary' immigration policies

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee, alleging the state's "sanctuary policies" obstruct federal immigration enforcement. Governor McKee and Attorney ...

RI's 2026 attorney general race draws its first candidate. Here's who is running.

Keith Hoffmann has become the first candidate to formally announce they are running to be Rhode Island's next attorney general in the 2026 election. Until about three weeks ago, Hoffmann was chief of ...

Democrat Keith Hoffmann files to run for RI attorney general

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Keith Hoffmann, who until recently served as a senior aide to Attorney General Peter Neronha, ...