You can also turn to the Better Business Bureau, a private nonprofit agency that handles consumer complaints. In fact, they just rolled out a new-and-improved Scam Tracker.

All complaints filed with code enforcement must now include your name, number, and address if you want it to be investigated. It’s a policy Bay County Code Enforcement has had in place for years.

As part of National Consumer Protection Week, Attorney General Dan Rayfield released the top 10 consumer complaints in 2024 to the Oregon Department of Justice.

Should code enforcement be complaint driven or proactive? With the pending adoption of the city’s new zoning code, property maintenance code and rental code, the council had an in-depth ...

Those agencies received a total of 281,000 consumer complaints last year and report a total of $123 million saved or recovered for consumers through mediation or enforcement actions.

BRAINERD — Complaint-driven code enforcement will move forward in Brainerd, but council members aren’t quite on the same page when it comes to what that enforcement looks like.

Auto-related complaints remain the top consumer issue for 2024, while agencies secured over $890 million in relief for frustrated consumers.