Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford told the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs that his office will focus its work through five policy priorities — client services, consumer protection, constitutional and civil rights, criminal justice reform, and community engagement.

Ford, appearing with senior staff, said the Office of the Attorney General includes roughly 155 attorneys, 62 investigators and about 200 support staff across 23 divisions and emphasized the overarching mission: "our job is justice," he said.

The attorney general summarized recent enforcement results and programs. He told the committee the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit obtained judgments totaling more than $13,000,000 and secured 38 criminal convictions plus 17 civil settlements between 2022 and 2024; his office has recovered more than $1,200,000,000 in opioid-related settlements anticipated to arrive over future years, and non-opioid recoveries in the last biennium exceeded $28,000,000. Ford said the opioid funds will be tracked on a public data dashboard his office produced with the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.

Ford described litigation in which Nevada joined other states to block a federal executive action on birthright citizenship and to prevent a federal freeze on assistance that would have delayed grants for domestic-violence and sexual-assault service providers. "We prevailed" in preliminary injunctive relief, he said, and his office has enforced the resulting orders as needed.

On immigrant-targeted scams, Ford said his office conducts sting operations and community outreach against notario fraud and similar schemes. "We have active, very active operations," he told Assemblymember Sidra Da Silva, and he said the office has run Spanish-language public service announcements in partnership with the Mexican consulate to warn communities and publicize available resources. Ford also said his office will follow up with the committee to provide specific counts when available.

Ford told the committee his office counsels public agencies on the state Open Meeting Law, receives complaints about alleged violations, and files a compilation bill each year to address clarifications and improvements. He said other priorities include prosecution of financial fraud, cybercrime and human-trafficking investigations and management of constituent services, which the AG said received more than 16,000 requests in the past biennium.

During an assembly Q&A, Ford clarified that the federal executive order he and other states challenged would have applied prospectively and stressed he was not asserting that current citizens would lose status. "Every person present in this country has constitutional rights," he said, noting the Fourteenth Amendment as the legal basis for birthright citizenship.

The committee heard Ford answer questions on his office's victim-services staffing, open-meeting enforcement and outreach work. The presentation was informational; no formal committee action or vote occurred on matters presented by the attorney general.