State Representative Penny Bacchiochi and State Senator John Kissel visited the Somers Senior Center today to host an information forum on identity theft and give residents a brie legislative update on the 2012 legislative session that recently concluded.
Pamela Brown from the Department of Consumer Protection gave a presentation with tips on how people can safeguard their personal information and followed the presentation with a question and answer period. Identity theft is still the biggest source of U.S. consumer fraud, costing the country $57 billion last year. For more information on identity theft please visit the Department of Consumer Protection website at www.ct.gov/dcp.

