Sections
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The Consumer Advocacy Section is the clearinghouse for Connecticut constituent complaints involving unfair or deceptive marketplace activities and elder justice concerns. This Section mediates complaints from consumers and small businesses, fosters the development of fair consumer practices, and promotes statewide consumer education and outreach. Additionally, in partnership with the Connecticut Elder Justice Coalition, the Consumer Advocacy Section manages and staffs the Elder Justice Hotline, which provides information, assistance and resources to older adults and their advocates regarding elder abuse, neglect, fraud and exploitation.
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This Section administers and enforces the Connecticut Antitrust Act, and has authority to enforce major provisions of the federal antitrust laws. The Section also relies on federal and state laws to ensure the Attorney General’s overall responsibility to maintain open and competitive markets in Connecticut. Utilizing these statutes, we investigate and prosecute antitrust and other competition-related actions on behalf of consumers, businesses and governmental units. In addition, this Section provides advice and counsel on proposed legislation and various issues regarding competition policy. In the past few years, the Attorney General served as the chair of the Antitrust Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General and remains active within that organization.
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The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Information about domestic violence, the toll-free 24-hour crisis line, safe shelters across the state, services available in Connecticut.
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This Section, with over 40 attorneys, is dedicated to protecting the children of the State of Connecticut from abuse and neglect. This past year, the Child Protection Section successfully represented the Department of Children and families in thousands of juvenile court cases, to protect children who had been abused and neglected and help their placement in permanent safe homes. The Section also successfully defended a number of appeals involving these children before the Appellate and Supreme Court.
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Department of Children and Families - Ways to Help Children Website
The Website for Department of Children and Families - Ways to Help Children - ways to help children who may have been abused or neglected, or to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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The Connecticut Association of Foster and Adoptive Parents
Information about training, conferences, support, publications, how to make a donation and more.
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The Department of Children and Families
Information about reporting child abuse, ways to help children, leaving your child alone, foster care and adoption, etc.
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Information on Environment Protection, Agriculture, and the Fish & Wildlife Service, CT. Assoc. of Conservation and Inland Wetlands Commissions, CT. Fund for the Environment, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Nature Conservancy.
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Frequently Asked Questions & Answers
Includes information on making reports or complaints about pollution, getting the status of an enforcement action, etc.
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Clean Air Act Cases and Challenges
This Section has been very active in representing the State of Connecticut in various actions whose goal is to improve and protect Connecticut’s air quality. These actions include lawsuits against major polluters and regulatory challenges to proposed federal rules that, instead of placing stricter controls on air emissions, would allow more pollution.
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This Section represents the State and the people of Connecticut to ensure that the environment is protected for the benefit of the public health and welfare. This Section provides advice and representation in state and federal administrative and court proceedings to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Department of Agriculture and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Financial and Revenue Services
The Financial and Revenue Services Section (“Section”) provides legal services to several state agencies, including the Department of Banking, the Department of Insurance, the Department of Revenue Services, the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Office of Policy and Management, the Office of Health Strategy, the Office of Workforce Strategy, the State Insurance Risk Management Board, the Public Utility Regulatory Authority and the Siting Council.
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This Section represents the Governor, the Judicial Branch, the General Assembly, the Secretary of the State, the Treasurer, the Comptroller, the Auditors of Public Accounts, the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the Office of State Ethics, the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board, the State Properties Review Board, the Judicial Review Council, the Judicial Selection Commission, the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, the Board of Accountancy, the Office of the Child Advocate, the Office of the Victim Advocate, the Commission on Women, Children and Seniors, the State of Contracting Standards Board, and the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission. In addition, through its Public Charities Unit, the Section protects the public interest in gifts, bequests and devises for charitable purposes; and in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection, administers and enforces state laws regulating charities and professional fundraisers who solicit from the public.
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The Health and Education Section represents a myriad of state agencies which include the State Department of Education, the Department of Developmental Services, the University of Connecticut and all of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities. It represents the Department of Social Services, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Psychiatric Security Review Board, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Department of Public Health and the various health licensing boards and the Office of Health Strategy.