OK Attorney General and AARP sponsor Consumer Protection Day at

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Feb 2, 2006 by Journal Record Staff

State Attorney General Drew Edmondson and the AARP will sponsor the second annual Consumer Protection Day at the state Capitol from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Representatives from law enforcement and consumer groups will set up booths and provide information to visitors throughout the day on the second floor Capitol rotunda.

Shred It will donate shredding services for the day. The company will have two trucks in the Capitol's south parking lot where consumers can drop off documents to be shredded on site free of charge.

This is a perfect opportunity for Oklahomans who are worried about identity theft to destroy documents containing personal or financial information, Edmondson said.

Other participants will include the attorney general's Consumer Protection Unit and AARP Oklahoma, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Postal Service, the Victim Services Unit of the Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office, the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office, the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS will participate in the event.

Representatives from the Village Police Department, the Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police, the Oklahoma Insurance Department and the Cyber-Crimes Unit of the Tulsa Police Department will also be present to answer questions and provide information to the public.

Identity theft is a very real problem that we must all guard against, said Bob Bristow, AARP state president.

The event is being held in conjunction with National Consumer Protection Week.