ICYMI: AG Charity Clark Discusses Public Safety, Consumer Protection Ahead of November AG Election
October 24, 2024
AG Clark: “...I’m really proud of the work that our office does”
Washington, DC – This week, Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark sat down with Vermont Edition to discuss her key priorities for her reelection into the AGs office.


Key highlights:
- “Well, I think holding big corporations accountable, which is something I’ve been doing for the past two years since getting sworn in, would be a priority. This includes…suing Monsanto for contaminating Vermont’s waterways, natural resources, and schools with their toxic chemical PCBs. Also the Pharmacy Benefit Managers who we recently sued. And of course, not a big corporation, but we did sue the FDA to make sure that the abortion drug Mifepristone was accessible to Vermonters.”
- “I’m particularly interested in protecting Vermont’s children….that means holding Big Tech and Big Tobacco and in some ways, Big Chemical accountable for bad acts here in Vermont.”
- We have in Vermont…the Security Breach Notification Act and those notifications come to my office…And we get a breach notification, more than one, everyday…So it’s really critical that we are doing work, both from our office and with education, but also in the legislature to make sure that a comprehensive data privacy bill makes it across the finish line and we can begin to implement better practices when it comes to protecting people’s data…”
- “…everybody deserves to not only be safe, but feel safe in their communities. And it’s an important job for the Attorney General to be a member of the…community in keeping people safe. For me, I prioritize prosecution of the most violent crimes. That includes muruder, sexual assault, child sexual assault, and those kinds of cases.”
- “Well I think restorative justice is critically important and it is something that the Attorney General’s office plays a very large role in because our community justice unit oversees all the restorative justice programming in the state. We provide grants to local nonprofits who are the restorative justice centers…all throughout the state. And we have, therefore, this oversight of programming.”
- “So what we see with restorative justice is outcomes that are better for both the victim and also for the perpetrator. These are generally lower level crimes. There’s an opportunity for intervention if there are issues related to drugs and alcohol or mental health. Statistically, there’s more healing that happens for the victim and more rehabilitation for the perpetrator.”
Listen to the full interview here.
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