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Consumer Protection

The Colorado Attorney General is dedicated to protecting Colorado consumers and businesses by upholding Colorado and Federal laws designed to maintain a fair and competitive business environment while protecting consumers from being targets of fraud. Whether combating scammers attempting to concoct elaborate investment schemes, bait-and-switch advertising,  unscrupulous lenders, or fraud on older Coloradans, Consumer Protection Section is devoted to keeping Coloradans safe.

Rules governing Investigative hearings conducted by the Office of the Attorney General, pursuant to the Colorado Consumer Protection Act, C.R.S. § 6-1-108(1), and the Colorado Antitrust Act, C.R.S. § 6-4-110(1)(b) can be found here.

A chart indicating the current certified dollar limit under UPMIFA (C.R.S. 15-1-1106(d)(1), can be found here.


Consumer Fraud Unit

The primary responsibility for the Consumer Fraud Unit is consumer complaint intake, investigation, and prosecution of violations of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act and the Charitable Solicitations Act. This Unit also handles much of the Section’s consumer education and outreach efforts.

Cases and investigations resolved by the Consumer Protection Section can be found here.

Past Consumer Protection Cases →


Consumer Credit Unit

The Consumer Credit Unit regulates (through licensure/registration programs) companies and individuals involved in consumer lending, debt collection, and debt management. The Unit regulates supervised lenders, credit sellers, credit counseling and debt settlement companies, and collection agencies.

Consumer Credit Enforcement Unit

The Consumer Credit Enforcement Unit investigates and prosecutes violations of Colorado laws that provide protections for consumers in dealings with consumer lenders, finance companies, retail credit sellers, debt settlement companies, credit counseling agencies, and debt collectors.  The Unit also investigates and prosecutes lenders who attempt to evade Colorado laws that cap consumer loan interest rates and fees.

More on the Consumer Credit Unit →


Antitrust Unit

This Unit enforces state and federal antitrust statutes to protect Colorado consumers from price-fixing, bid-rigging and attempts to reduce competition in Colorado that could result in higher prices for goods and services imposed on Colorado consumers.

Click here to view recent comments from Attorney General Phil Weiser on antitrust enforcement in an interview with Competition Policy International.


Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate Unit

This Unit represents the State’s public advocate who represents residential, small business, and agricultural utility ratepayers before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.  The Unit examines all applications made by utilities that could impose increased rates on consumers to determine if they are reasonable and fair.

Attorney General Phil Weiser


Opioid Unit

The Opioid Unit supports the broad efforts of the Department of Law to address the opioid epidemic and its devastating impact on the state. The Opioid Unit works to hold accountable those who created and fueled this opioid crisis. The Opioid Unit is actively investigating and suing unscrupulous opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers that employ deceptive marketing and other irresponsible practices to fuel the opioid epidemic. These investigations and lawsuits seek to stop irresponsible marketing, prescribing, and use of opioids and seek monetary damages that can be used to support urgently needed drug treatment and recovery pathways that will be accessible to impacted Coloradans.

Steven Kaufmann

Steven Kaufmann

Deputy Attorney General, Consumer Protection

Colorado Department of Law
Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center
1300 Broadway, 9th Floor
Denver, CO 80203
720-508-6000

 

Office of the Attorney General
Colorado Department of Law
Ralph L. Carr Judicial Building
1300 Broadway, 10th Floor
Denver, CO 80203

(720) 508-6000

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