CHARLESTON, S.C. (Jan. 14, 2026) - Today, Congresswoman Nancy Mace demanded answers from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson after he not only refused to comply with her Congressional office's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the lack of prosecution of pedophiles and child predators in South Carolina, but threatened to take her to court instead of providing the documents.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace's Congressional office submitted a second FOIA request to Attorney General Alan Wilson's office requesting basic records on how his office prosecutes pedophiles and child predators. Instead of providing existing data and documents already in his possession, Wilson refused and made the remarkable claim complying would "shut down the Office's Internet Crimes Against Children and Special Prosecution sections for months."

Wilson's January 13th letter to Rep. Mace stated: "Spending so much time on your request would cause hundreds of cases to be delayed and would effectively shut down the Office's Internet Crimes Against Children and Special Prosecution sections for months."

"There's just one problem: those cases are already delayed because the Attorney General isn't prosecuting them," said Congresswoman Mace."Wilson isn't prosecuting pedophiles and isn't producing documents. So what exactly would be 'shut down'?"

What Wilson Refused to Provide

Rep. Mace's December 10, 2025 FOIA request sought straightforward information on cases involving child pornography or sexual exploitation of minors referred for prosecution since January 1, 2019:

• Original charges referred for prosecution
• Charges dropped in plea agreements
• Charges defendants pled guilty to
• Sentences imposed (including suspended sentences)
• Terms of probation
• Other conditions (sex offender registry, restitution, etc.)
• Correspondence related to plea agreements

Wilson's office directed Rep. Mace to search public court records herself for the first six categories of information, refusing to compile basic prosecution data his office already tracks, and already has compiled.

For the seventh request, correspondence about plea deals, Wilson claimed compliance would be "a nearly impossible undertaking" which would cause "hundreds of cases to be delayed" and constitute "an unconscionable abuse of FOIA."

Lawsuit Threat Over "Improper" Request

Rather than provide the information, Wilson's office threatened legal action against Rep. Mace, claiming the request was "unduly burdensome" and asserting it "does not benefit the State or crime victims."

"Let me set Alan Wilson straight: asking how the Office of Attorney General prosecutes pedophiles directly benefits crime victims," Rep. Mace said."The only people who benefit from secrecy are the pedophiles getting sweetheart deals, and the Attorney General who granted them."

Rep. Mace demands Wilson to immediately "release the files"and give South Carolina children and parents the transparency they deserve from an Attorney General whose job is supposed to be protecting children, not pedophiles.

Earlier this year, Rep. Mace, through a FOIA, discovered Wilson and his Office, dropped 93% of cases against pedophiles in just one county in South Carolina. She's seeking information on other counties about other cases taxpayers have a right to know and understand. As the benefactor of federal funding, Wilson should come clean. Anything else is a cover up.

See the FOIA response from Attorney General Alan Wilson's Office Here:

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