{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-nancy-mace-foias-sc-attorney-general-data-mishandled-child", "Congresswoman Nancy Mace FOIAs S.C. Attorney General For Data On Mishandled Child Exploitation Cases", "2025-10-07", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "House", "SC", "Nancy Mace", "M000194", "mace.house.gov", "mace", "https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "(Charleston, S.C., October 7, 2025) \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01) sent a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson\u2019s office seeking detailed data on how the Attorney General\u2019s Office has handled cases involving child pornography and the sexual exploitation of minors since January 1, 2019.\n\nIn her letter, Rep. Mace asks for comprehensive statewide information including the number of cases filed, dismissed, and resulting in convictions; average case duration; plea agreements; sentencing outcomes; and details of bond releases, broken down by county and year.\n\nThe request follows previous findings from a 2022 memorandum by First Circuit Solicitor David M. Pascoe, obtained by Congresswoman Mace\u2019s office through an earlier FOIA request, which revealed that of 385 cases related to child exploitation in Dorchester County between 2019 and 2022, more than 92% were dismissed and only 7.5% resulted in conviction, none by jury trial.\n\n\u201cThese are some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, and it appears Alan Wilson has turned South Carolina into a sanctuary state for p*dophiles,\u201d said Rep. Mace. \u201cFamilies deserve to know how p*dophile cases are being handled and whether justice is truly being served for our children. If the system is this broken in one county, we need to know how far Alan Wilson\u2019s negligence has infected the rest of the state. The public has a right to know what\u2019s happening across all 46 counties. And we need to know NOW.\u201d\n\nMace\u2019s FOIA request urges the Attorney General\u2019s Office to release the data to ensure accountability and public confidence in the prosecution of crimes involving the sexual exploitation of minors.\n\nREAD THE FOIA REQUEST:\n\n###\n\nFor press inquiries, please contact SC01Press@mail.house.gov", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-nancy-mace-foias-sc-attorney-general-data-mishandled-child"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6992069538682699, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}