State AGs And Consumer Protection: What We Learned From . . . Colorado

We continue our State AG webinar series traveling farther west past the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Last week, we spoke with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Deputy Attorney General for Consumer Protection, Nathan Blake, and covered a wide range of topics from the office's structure, to the Colorado Privacy Act, to artificial intelligence (AI), and teen mental health. We recap highlights of what we learned below.

Background and Priorities of the Office

Given Colorado's larger size and what AG Weiser called a "range of inputs" including from the legislature and the public, the Consumer Protection Section is comprised of many specialized teams including an opioids unit, a utilities consumer advocate unit, a consumer credit codes unit (where the office plays a supervisory role in non-bank lending), and a civil rights and corporate fraud unit. The section also encompasses traditional consumer protection issues such as consumer fraud and