Eliminating infraction bench warrants will help end an unnecessary pipeline to incarceration that makesit harder for people to pay their debt, support their families, and achieve financial stability.
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These are comments to the California Dept of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in response to its request for comments on a potential rulemaking to regulate consumer reporting agencies.
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This letter urges the Los Angeles City Council to prohibit landlords from using Ratio Utility Billing System (RUBS) to calculate utility bills in master-metered rental housing.
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Leigh Ferrin Will Head the New Project, Aimed at Increasing the Capacity of Legal Services Programs to Address Consumer Law Issues
Read More about NCLC Launches Initiative to Support California Economic Justice Efforts
The National Consumer Law Center’s California Consumer Law Support Project strengthens the capacity of legal services organizations to provide essential consumer law services to low-income Californians. The project will support California Legal Services organizations through four areas of work: Policy Advocacy In California, NCLC retains Kaiser Advocacy to support legislative and regulatory reforms that benefit…
Patricia Gout, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated v. Unison Agreement Corp., Unison Investment Management, LLC, and Real Estate Equity Exchange, Inc., CGC-25-629062 (Cal. Super. Ct.) This class action complaint seeks relief for California borrowers against predatory mortgage lender Unison Agreement Corp. and its affiliates. The case asserts that the defendants dupe…
California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act will make buying a new or used vehicle in California more affordable and less risky.
AB 1365 by Assemblymember Garcia soared through two Assembly Committees this week; the bill moves CA forward on CalAccount – a voluntary, no-fee, no-penalty banking option for Californians SACRAMENTO– This week, the California State Assembly Committees on Banking and Labor voted overwhelmingly to pass AB 1365 (Garcia), a bill to eliminate barriers to banking for…
This bill amends the California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL) to clarify and underscore theauthority of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) to enforce consumerfinancial protection laws to safeguard consumers from deceptive and predatory practices.
With Change in Federal Priorities, California Workers Need State Protections With a new administration in Washington D.C., proposed federal protections may be reversed. So states like California with a proud tradition of protecting workers must make clear that:
California was one of the first states to restrict the use of credit reports in employment decisions in 2011, leading at least 10 other states and two large cities to pass similar laws. The CA law, however, has several exceptions that weaken it. That is not unusual for an early adopter, given that state legislatures…
Read More about Tightening Consumer Protections: Don’t Let Credit Blemishes Kill Job Opportunities
These are comments to the California Public Utilities Commission in support of TURN’s extreme heat protection recommendations and in support of opening a rulemaking regarding extreme heat protections.
