“The judge’s order in this case was unequivocal: FEMA must restore the BRIC program. Communities across Washington are counting on these dollars for vital disaster mitigation projects,” Brown said.

The enforced compliance order comes nearly a year after FEMA terminated the program, calling it "wasteful" and "politicized." ...

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown and a multistate coalition recently secured a court order requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to take concrete steps to ...

A federal judge says the agency needs to comply with a December court order to restart a program that helps states prepare ...

A federal court has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to restore billions of dollars in disaster mitigation funding following a lawsuit brought by a coalition of 23 states, including ...

The ruling orders FEMA to provide state and local governments with funds from the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, after a move to end it was deemed “illegal” by a previous ...

On Friday, March 6, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that a judge had granted Jackson's motion forcing FEMA to reinstate its BRIC program.

AG Kwame Raoul wins court order forcing FEMA to reinstate BRIC disaster funding, protecting communities nationwide including Illinois against natural disasters.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown announced that a court order was secured, requiring the FEMA to pay back billions in ...

As the FEMA senior executive responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and oversight of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) pre-disaster hazard mitigation ...

A group of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to block what they say was an illegal termination of a program that provided federal funding for natural disaster mitigation ...

Twenty Democratic-led states filed suit Wednesday against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the elimination of a long-running grant program that helps communities guard against ...