Illegal Immigration

As a prosecutor, Bill understands the impact of illegal immigration on crime in Maricopa County. Unfortunately, our status as a destination county for human and drug smuggling brings with it other crimes, like kidnapping, extortion, auto theft, and violent acts between rival smuggling gangs. By enforcing the law, we can also impact the real human rights tragedy of people coming to our country looking for a better way of life only to fall prey to Coyotes engaged in human smuggling, or suffer death in the desert due to exposure and extreme heat. We can and must enforce laws against illegal immigration and do it without resorting to race baiting or gutter politics.

Bill supports the involvement of local law enforcement in assisting with enforcement of our immigration laws. This can be done in the normal and regular course of law enforcement activity.

Fighting Crime and Protecting Arizona's Families

Bill supports the Castle Doctrine Law, which recognizes a citizen's right to defend their families without fear of prosecution. Bill also supports Arizona's Three Strikes Law, which targets repeat violent criminals. We must never forget the harm violent crime does to victims.

Throughout his legal career, Bill has been a strong advocate of Victim Rights in Arizona, working as a Crime Victim Rights Attorney and appearing on his own before the State Legislature in support of Victim Rights legislation.

Protecting Arizona's Children

Bill understands that violent child sexual predators cannot be rehabilitated and supports life sentences for these offenses. As a member of the Joint Legislative Committee on GPS Monitoring, Bill has also advocated for GPS monitoring for other convicted child sex offenders. Additionally, Bill is a strong advocate of conducting Internet sting operations designed to help capture child predators before they get the chance to victimize our kids. The ultimate goal is to let would-be child predators know they will find no safe haven in Arizona.

Bill has put more tools into the hands of parents to protect their kids on the Internet. Bill is an advocate for a Child Protection Registry designed to allow parents to register emails, cell phone numbers and other electronic contact information of their children so adult-oriented businesses, including tobacco and alcohol retailers, cannot contact their children to solicit business.

Identity Theft

Identity theft is a major problem in Arizona. In fact, we've had the worst Identity Theft rate of any state in the nation for more than 10 years. Bill continues his commitment to fighting fraud and identity theft through the specialized Fraud and identity theft Enforcement Bureau of the County Attorney's Office. Bill also supports efforts to make it easier for victims of identity theft to clear credit reports of fraudulent information and to report instances of multi-jurisdictional crimes.

The harm suffered by identity theft victims extends beyond the "mere" inconvenience of a lower credit score to include the emotional toll, the time and effort to try to untangle what happened, and the financial cost of missed opportunities because of denied credit.