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But elements of the city’s bureaucracy are gearing up to fight parts of the legislation. At a City Council hearing on Monday, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and the Department of Small Business Services pushed back on the proposals.
Consumer Protection Commissioner Lorelei Salas opposed what she considered would be a dilution of the Consumer Protection Law, which Salas argued has been part of the city code since 1969.
“Diluting the CPL and not improving its protections will have tremendously negative consequences for the most vulnerable of our city’s constituents and stifle our agency mission during a time of extreme crisis,” she said.