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* Accepts and investigates complaints and consumer fraud reports from individual consumers.

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State Attorneys General
General Consumer Complaints
Identity Theft Prevention
Consumer Fraud Reporting
Consumer Protection Agencies
Automobile Complaints
Crime Victim Compensation
Computer Complaints
Disaster Related Fraud Reporting
Crime Investigation
Provides enforcement of laws and regulations relating to pharmaceutical, medical device, cosmetic, food, and radiological product manufacture/distribution.

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Consumer Product Safety Complaints
General Safety Education
Food Safety Standards
Consumer Goods Information
Registers motor vehicles, motorboats, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles. Licenses drivers, dealers, repair shops, inspection stations and driving schools, approves driver training programs and establishes uniformity in traffic regulations. Provides photo non-driver identification cards for all ages.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Motor Vehicle Registration
Disability Parking Permits
Motor Vehicle Inspection Programs
Driver License Testing Sites
Identification Cards
Driving Safety Education
Automobile Complaints
Driver Licenses
Registers motor vehicles, motorboats, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles. Licenses drivers, dealers, repair shops, inspection stations and driving schools, approves driver training programs and establishes uniformity in traffic regulations. Provides photo non-driver identification cards for all ages.

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Driver Licenses
Specialized Information and Referral
Automobile Complaints
Disability Parking Permits
Driver License Testing Sites
Identification Cards
Motor Vehicle Registration
Motor Vehicle Inspection Programs
Driving Safety Education
* Responsible for supervising charitable organizations to protect donors and recipients from dishonest practices in soliciting and managing charitable resources.* Supervises activity of foundations and other charities to ensure their funds and property are appropriately used and protect the community.* Maintains registry of charities and fundraising professionals.* Investigates complaints that include: Wrongdoing by charitable businesses, trusts, or other nonprofit organizations. Fraudulent or misleading solicitation and improper spending of money for charitable purposes. Inappropriate activities of executors, administrators, trustees, and personal representatives responsible for honoring pledges or gifts to charity.
* Regulatory agency for adult care facilities, adult homes, enriched housing apartments. Conducts routine inspections. Review of applications for certification and incorporation of authorized adult care agencies. * Receives complaints re: adult homes and assisted living apartments.

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Nursing Facility Complaints
Adult Residential Facility Complaints
Provides advocacy and resources for older adults and persons with disabilities who lives in nursing homes, assisted living, and other licensed adult care homes as well as behavioral health services.

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Adult Residential Facility Complaints
Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs
Nursing Facility Complaints
Patient Rights Assistance
Registers motor vehicles, motorboats, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles. Licenses drivers, dealers, repair shops, inspection stations and driving schools, approves driver training programs and establishes uniformity in traffic regulations. Provides photo non-driver identification cards for all ages.

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Identification Cards
Automobile Complaints
Driving Safety Education
Specialized Information and Referral
Motor Vehicle Inspection Programs
Driver Licenses
Motor Vehicle Registration
Driver License Testing Sites
Disability Parking Permits
* Report the misconduct of New York State licensed professionals. Acupuncture, architecture, audiology, chiropractor, CPA, dentistry, land surveying, landscaping, massage, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, optometry, physical therapy, podiatry, shorthand reporting, social work, speech pathology and veterinary medicine and many more. No physician assistants or doctors. Call for complete list.

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Accountant Complaints
Nursing Facility Complaints
Landscape Architect Complaints
Land Surveyor Complaints
General Consumer Complaints
Helpline dedicated to answer questions about financial institutions complaints, such as banks, credit unions, lending institutions, and safe deposit companies. Help with report a problem with a financial institution.
* Provides child safety seat check information.
  • No direct safety seat inspections provided.
* Provides motor vehicle and traffic safety information.
* Reports motor vehicle equipment defects through the Auto Safety Hotline.

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Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspections
Driving Safety Education
Automobile Complaints
* Receives reports from the public for FDA-regulated products such as: Prescription and over-the-counter medicines Biologics such as blood components, blood/plasma derivatives and gene therapies Medical devices such as hearing aids breast pumps, and pacemakers Combination products such as pre-filled drug syringe, metered-dose inhalers and nasal spray Special nutritional products such as dietary supplements, medical foods and infant formulas Cosmetics such as moisturizers, makeup, shampoos, hair dyes and tattoos Food such as beverages and ingredients added to foods
* Provides confidential mediation and conflict resolution services. Divorce mediation and Arbitration Child custody and visitation Community mediation for quality of life issues, e.g. neighbor disputes, small claims, contractor, homeowner, landlord/tenant Restorative justice Special education mediation Vehicle lemon law Commercial arbitration Training - Conflict resolution, employee disputes, peer mediation for schools

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Landlord/Tenant Dispute Resolution
Contractor Complaints
Housing Complaints
Mediation
* Offers assistance in filing complaints against debt collection agencies who have used unacceptable behavior.
Assists families with complaint applications regarding cemetery fraud, etc, and investigates these complaints.
Responsible for implementing programs and providing information to help individuals live healthier lives by minimizing environmental health threats. Some efforts are targeted to the population at large, such as monitoring of public and private drinking water supplies, food safety in restaurants, fire safety in hotels, and permitting of mass gatherings. Other programs target specific needs such as interventions to prevent illness from rabies, lead poisoning, failing septic systems, and sale of tobacco products to minors.

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Universal Precautions Programs
Environmental Hazards Information
Funeral Director Complaints
Pest Information
Public Facility Health Inspection
Pool Sanitation
Meningitis Control
SARS Control
Ebola Control
Zika Virus Control
Health Spa Complaints
Head Lice Control
Tuberculosis Control
Food Complaints
Water Quality Monitoring
Condominium Complaints
Pre/Post-Exposure Rabies Immunizations
Fire Prevention Information
Environmental Hazards Reporting
Mold Abatement
Restaurant/Food Sanitation
Influenza Control
Public Health Surveillance Programs
Food Safety Education
Outpatient Clinic Complaints
West Nile Virus Control
Rabies Control
Food Poisoning Investigation
Registers motor vehicles, motorboats, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles. Licenses drivers, dealers, repair shops, inspection stations and driving schools, approves driver training programs and establishes uniformity in traffic regulations. Provides photo non-driver identification cards for all ages.

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Driver Licenses
Identification Cards
Driver License Testing Sites
Motor Vehicle Inspection Programs
Driving Safety Education
Motor Vehicle Registration
Disability Parking Permits
Automobile Complaints
Specialized Information and Referral
Assists individuals with filing complaints and investigates problems regarding food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, tobacco, and biologic-based items. If any of these item are purchased and cause harm, have adverse effects which have not be fore-warned, or other problems occur due to seller or manufacturer error or neglect.

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Food Complaints
Cosmetics Complaints
Drug Complaints
Restaurant Complaints
Responsible for inspecting and testing all weighing and measuring devices used for commercial purposes in the county. Licenses and inspects all precious metals dealers in the county and registers all gasoline stations and distributors. Checks packaged commodities for weight compliance. Performs water contamination tests on all gasolines. Handles consumer complaints regarding inaccurate weighing and measuring devices, shortweight or shortmeasure purchases, and contaminated gasoline. Addresses inquires about the sale of fuel, oil, coal, firewood, or any other commodity sold by weight or measure. Call for detailed information.

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Government Consumer Protection Agencies
Consumer Services
Consumer Assistance and Protection
Heating Fuel Service Complaints
Consumer Regulation
Service Station Complaints
Consumer Complaints

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Intermediate Care Facilities for Developmentally Disabled Complaints
Tuberculosis Control
Meningitis Control
AIDS / HIV Control
Industry Specific Occupational Health and Safety
Physician / Surgeon Complaints
Home Health Care Complaints
Adult Residential Facility Complaints
Head Lice Control
Welfare Fraud Reporting
Adult Day Program Complaints
Food Poisoning Investigation
HIV Testing
Outpatient Clinic Complaints
Zika Virus Control
Influenza Control
AIDS / HIV Prevention Counseling
Hospice Complaints
Nursing Facility Complaints
Rabies Control
Sexually Transmitted Disease Control
West Nile Virus Control
Hospital Complaints
Public Facility Health Inspection
Specialized Information and Referral
SARS Control
Health Maintenance Organization Complaints
* Provides a range of resources to help parents with their child care needs, people who want to start or are currently running child care programs, and anyone with a concern about the health or safety of a child in a day care program.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Instruction
Child Care Complaints
Investigates and prosecutes professional misconduct or failure to meet expected standards of practice in all professions, including health programs, except medicine.

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Land Surveyor Complaints
Landscape Architect Complaints
Engineer Complaints
Accountant Complaints
Athletic Trainer Complaints
Architect Complaints
Provides specially trained volunteers (ombudsman) who work to resolve complaints on behalf of residents of long-term care facilities, assist in the protection of their rights, assist family members, encourage participation in resident councils, and establish good working relations with the facility's administration and staff. Volunteers make regular visits to assigned facilities and are available to residents and family members who have questions or concerns. Volunteers are professionally supervised, and trained.

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Health Facility Complaints
Patient Rights Assistance
Adult Residential Facility Complaints
Assists parents or guardians with filing a complaint about a child care provider and investigate the complaints.
Helps parents find day care providers by name, type of facility, county or zip code online or by phone. Also helps parents who have complaints about a child care facility.