Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed away from requiring states to agree to cooperate with the president's immigration agenda in order to access federal money for programs that help victims of crime.

In a series of news releases Friday, several of the attorneys general announced that federal Victims of Crime Act money was being released, enabling the states to fund victim assistance grants to nonprofits as well as their state compensation programs that provide direct aid to victims of violent crime. Officials from 20 states and Washington, D.C., had signed on to a lawsuit filed in late August challenging the requirement.

The federal conditions placed on the funds threatened to cut money to a state or subgrantee if it refused to honor civil im

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