State AG Enforcement

Arnall Golden Gregory published its May 2026 Government Investigations Team Insights, a legal update highlighting enforcement trends across antitrust, state attorney general actions, and False Claims Act litigation. The firm elevated Steve Provazza to partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. Provazza, formerly an assistant attorney general in Rhode Island, led that state's consumer protection, antitrust, and data privacy enforcement efforts before joining AGG.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on April 9, 2026, that his office is launching an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT models, alleging their role in facilitating a 2025 Florida State University (FSU) shooting, harming minors, enabling criminal activity, and posing national security risks from potential exploitation by adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Subpoenas are forthcoming, with probes focusing on ChatGPT's alleged assistance to the FSU gunman—who queried it on the day of the April 17, 2025, attack about public reaction to a shooting and peak times at the FSU student union—plus links to child sex abuse material, grooming, and suicide encouragement.[1][3][5][6][7]

State attorneys general are moving from rhetoric to enforcement on algorithmic pricing and online age verification, deploying consumer-protection statutes to investigate and penalize companies across retail, grocery, hospitality, and digital platforms. New York AG Letitia James has led the charge, backing the Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act—which took effect in November 2025 and requires conspicuous notice when prices are personalized using consumer data—and the broader "One Fair Price Package" announced in March 2026 to restrict surveillance pricing. California's AG has launched a parallel investigative sweep into algorithmic pricing and is pursuing new legislation to constrain the practice. The enforcement wave is bipartisan and reflects a strategic pivot by state offices to treat data-driven pricing and age-gating systems as violations of unfair-practice, privacy, and youth-safety laws.