Announcements, information and updates from The AG Alliance Members and Associates
January 9, 2020
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NEXT WEEK: CHAIR'S INITIATIVE AND BINATIONAL AG EXCHANGE
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CWAG Chair, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announces his 2020 Chair's Initiative, focusing on using technology to strengthen our economy and improve the delivery of justice. Please mark your calendars and prepare to engage in a dialogue on these important topics! Full Initiative Overview and Draft Agenda links below.
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Articles on topics relevant to the work of Attorneys General.
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OPIOIDS
CNN International
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING
ABC News
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CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY
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Colorado Attorney General Upcoming Event: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Compliance Toolkit for Small Businesses
January 28, 2020
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM MT
Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center
Denver, Colorado
Join the Office of the Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the Attorney General Alliance, and the National Cybersecurity Center for an engaging discussion on the best practices for small and mid-sized businesses to comply with federal and state data privacy and cybersecurity laws.
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Thomson Reuters Cybersecurity Webinar Recording Now Available
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser hosted Attorneys General, staff, and interested parties in a webinar titled, “Cybercrime and Ransom Requests.” To view or download the recording, please click the link labeled "Recording," and follow prompts.
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California Attorney General Becerra Issues Advisory Outlining New Data Privacy Rights for California Consumers
January 6, 2020
The California Consumer Privacy Act is in effect as of January 1, 2020. Attorney General Xavier Becerra has issued an advisory for consumers highlighting their new rights as part of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into in effect on January 1, 2020. The advisory describes consumers’ basic privacy rights under the CCPA and methods for consumers to exercise those rights, information about the data broker registry, and new guidelines related to data security. Enforcement of CCPA is the responsibility of the Office of the Attorney General.
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Opioid Crisis Concerns Spread to Data Privacy
David Blake, Squire Patton Boggs
January 3, 2020
In a recent ruling by opioid MDL Judge Dan Polster, 14 years of patient’s prescription data has now been ordered released by the nation’s largest pharmacies to the thousands of plaintiff’s in the landmark Ohio based opioid MDL litigation. Attorneys General are not formally parties to the MDL litigation but as the nation’s privacy champions have yet another reason to care about the MDL litigation is impacting their constituents. Attorneys General, law enforcement, health care privacy advocates, privacy advocates have all feuded for years – usually in the PDMP context – to keep exactly this same information from being data mined or released to anyone except when the information is narrowly tailored and court overseen. This latest order implicates literally billions and billions of patients health records.
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Illinois Attorney General Raoul Urges ICC to Return Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Excess Tax Money to Consumers
January 6, 2020
Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed two requests with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to rehear and reconsider its decisions in the ComEd and Ameren Illinois formula rate cases that allow the companies to hold onto hundreds of millions of dollars in consumer refunds for a period of more than 35 years.
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Arizona Attorney General Brnovich Sues Juul Labs, Inc.
January 7, 2020
Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office filed a Consumer Fraud lawsuit against Juul Labs, Inc. (JUUL), regarding the advertisement and sale of JUUL’s vaping devices and vaping pods to Arizonans, including JUUL's exploitative marketing towards Arizona’s youth. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in Maricopa County Superior Court.
The United States Surgeon General has described youth e-cigarette use as an “epidemic,” and the former United States Food and Drug Administration Commissioner has pointed to JUUL as a significant cause of the problem. Youth vaping now dramatically outpaces youth cigarette use nationally and in Arizona.
Attorney General Brnovich also announced an additional lawsuit against
Eonsmoke
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COMBATTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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Florida Attorney General Moody Recognizes National Human Trafficking Prevention Month
January 6, 2019
Attorney General Ashley Moody is recognizing January as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month by highlighting resources on human trafficking and how to report it. According to the International Labor Organization, forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry globally with an estimated 40.3 million victims worldwide. With Florida hosting multiple high-profile events in the coming months, human traffickers may try to take advantage of the festivities to profit off the pain of others.
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CWAG Executive Committee
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Hector Balderas -
Mark Brnovich
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- Wayne Stenehjem -
Phil Weiser
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AG Alliance Co-Chairs
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Lawrence Wasden - Sean Reyes - Karl Racine
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