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Democratic 2022 Attorney General

ANDREA JOY CAMPBELL

Growing up in Roxbury, Andrea’s life was filled with instability. When Andrea was eight months old, she lost her mother to a car accident while going to visit her father in prison. She and her brothers bounced around – living with relatives and sometimes in foster care – until her father got out of prison when she was eight years old, and she met him for the first time.

Andrea and her family relied on public housing and food assistance while her grandmother struggled with alcoholism. Her two brothers sadly cycled in and out of the prison system. She lost her twin brother Andre, when he passed away while in the custody of the Department of Corrections as a pre-trial detainee.

Protecting Consumers

Massachusetts’ consumer protection laws are second to none, providing tools for business regulation and enforcement that allow the Attorney General to level the playing field for consumers facing marketplace abuse. Andrea will leverage the legal tools of the Attorney General’s office to protect consumers from abusive practices in a wide range of industries.

Andrea will:

  • Ensure protections reflect current marketing practices, including abusive and misleading internet advertisements, misleading software applications and payment processing abuses.
  • Address recently developed industries, including app-based services, to make sure that both consumers and workers are properly protected by reasonable payment terms and adequate privacy safeguards.
  • Evaluate current disclosure requirements intended to protect consumers to make sure that necessary information about cost of cancellation and payment programs is prominently, accurately, and timely disclosed.
  • Investigate banks and mortgage companies when reported data shows that they are failing to do business based on race, sexuality, gender or religion.