Description: The Office of the Attorney General of Colorado (Colorado Department of Law) is the state's chief legal office responsible for representing Colorado and its agencies in legal matters, providing legal advice to state officials, enforcing state laws, protecting consumers and civil rights, litigating on behalf of the state in state and federal courts, and coordinating multistate enforcement actions and public-protection initiatives. Type: State government executive office (Attorney General/Department of Law) Policies: Public safety and criminal-justice matters; consumer protection and antitrust enforcement; environmental and natural-resource regulation and litigation; healthcare oversight and Medicaid fraud enforcement; civil rights and anti-discrimination enforcement; privacy, data-security, and identity-theft enforcement; opioid and public-health litigation; participation in multistate regulatory and enforcement actions. Funding: Primarily funded through the State of Colorado general fund and legislative appropriations, with supplemental funding from departmental fees, settlement recoveries, and federal grants on specific programs. Affiliates: Colorado Governor's Office and state executive agencies; Colorado General Assembly; local district attorneys and state prosecutors; internal divisions of the Colorado Department of Law; National Association of Attorneys General and other multistate coalition partners.
