Press Invited to Attend Conference on Combatting Sexual and Domestic Violence
WHO: The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) is hosting the conference in conjunction with Virginia Attorney General and NAAG Southern Region Chair Mark Herring. Attorneys general scheduled to speak include: Mark Herring, Virginia Attorney General and NAAG Southern Region Chair Ashley Moody, Florida Attorney General and NAAG Southern Region Vice Chair Lynn Fitch, Mississippi…
Attorneys General Call for Faster Implementation of Anti-Robocall Technology
Washington, D.C. — The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight back against the scourge of illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology. Under the TRACED Act, which became law in 2019, phone companies are required to implement…
Attorneys General Urge FCC to Accelerate Deadline for STIR/SHAKEN Adoption
The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight back against the scourge of illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology. Under the TRACED Act, which became law in 2019, phone companies are required to implement STIR/SHAKEN technology on…
Countering Elder Exploitation in the Age of a Global Pandemic
This is the second in a series of articles about financial exploitation of older adults related to the coronavirus pandemic. Learn more about elder justice. The first article in this series was published in March 2021 and explored the most recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data on elder exploitation (through the fourth quarter of 2020). That…
A Review of CPSC and NHTSA Safety Information Transparency and Recall Authority
The free market has an incredible ability to regulate itself; businesses have incentives to make their products safe and reliable or risk that consumers will shop elsewhere. However, potentially dangerous products still reach the market despite such incentives. Both the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) work to…
Consumer Chief of the Month: Crystal Utley Secoy, Mississippi Attorney General’s Office
It is a privilege to work in a bit of a bubble where every day I collaborate with attorneys, from New York to California and every state in between, who, no matter their background or political stripes, have one goal in common: to work together in order to protect consumers. I am grateful for those…
Attorney General Consumer Protection News: July 2021
NEW! We are now providing a digest of consumer protection-related press releases from state and territorial attorneys general and a selection of federal consumer-related releases on ConsumerResources.org, NAAG’s consumer-facing website. Multistate Actions Led by a North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general announced a proposed $26…
Federal Consumer Protection News: July 2021
NEW! We are now providing a digest of consumer protection-related press releases from state and territorial attorneys general and a selection of federal consumer-related releases on ConsumerResources.org, NAAG’s consumer-facing website. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) warned landlords and consumer reporting agencies to report rental information accurately as the federal eviction moratorium ends…
COVID-19 Credentials May Present Legal, Ethical, and Public Health Issues
On July 15, the U.S. reached over 336.1 million total doses administered with 185.1 million persons (55.8% of the total U.S. population) having received at least one dose and 160.4 million persons (48.3% of the total U.S. population) being fully vaccinated. Twenty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam have reached 70% or…
Significant Political and Legal Developments This Year for U.S. Territories
The United States’ territories and the District of Columbia are seeing some of the most significant political and legal movement they have experienced in years in several areas, including national reexamination of the Insular Cases, pushes for statehood, citizenship issues, and ongoing litigation about equitable federal benefits in the territories. Reexamination of the Insular Cases…
