Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

Consumer Action Edition

The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions. There are multiple editions of the ‘Guide’, some which deal with specific issues such as housing or credit. The full directory, the Consumer Service Guide Edition, provides access to all the resources collected by Consumer Action.

Listings for Marin County

These are the results for consumer specific consumer resources for Marin County. The listing is grouped by primary service category, then sorted alphabetically.

Complaint Assistance

• Legal Aid of Marin County
  Legal Aid’s mission is to improve social justice, economic equity, and opportunity and to assure due process and equal protection of the law by providing low-income and vulnerable Marin residents (children, seniors, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the homeless) with access to high-quality, effective legal services, including direct representation and pro per support services, and through affirmative litigation. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County District Attorney
  The Consumer Protection Unit is responsible for handling a broad spectrum of consumer protection activities. Its focus is to protect honest citizens from fraudulent or dishonest business practices. They have four major areas of concern: enforcement, mediation, referral, and outreach. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County Fair Housing (FHOM)
  FHOM's community programs promote human rights and diversity in Marin neighborhoods. In addition to their services for individuals and housing providers, Fair Housing of Marin also produces a variety of education, outreach and advocacy programs whose goals are to strengthen human rights and diversity in Marin county. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County Mediation Services
  Mediation Services was established in 1980 to offer the public an alternative to court as a way of resolving disputes in a variety of areas. Professionally trained and experienced Mediators help to facilitate resolutions for parties in conflict and for victims in Juvenile Delinquency matters. (San Rafael, CA)
  

Consumer Information

• Legal Aid of Marin County
  Legal Aid’s mission is to improve social justice, economic equity, and opportunity and to assure due process and equal protection of the law by providing low-income and vulnerable Marin residents (children, seniors, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the homeless) with access to high-quality, effective legal services, including direct representation and pro per support services, and through affirmative litigation. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County District Attorney
  The Consumer Protection Unit is responsible for handling a broad spectrum of consumer protection activities. Its focus is to protect honest citizens from fraudulent or dishonest business practices. They have four major areas of concern: enforcement, mediation, referral, and outreach. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County Fair Housing (FHOM)
  FHOM's community programs promote human rights and diversity in Marin neighborhoods. In addition to their services for individuals and housing providers, Fair Housing of Marin also produces a variety of education, outreach and advocacy programs whose goals are to strengthen human rights and diversity in Marin county. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County Mediation Services
  Mediation Services was established in 1980 to offer the public an alternative to court as a way of resolving disputes in a variety of areas. Professionally trained and experienced Mediators help to facilitate resolutions for parties in conflict and for victims in Juvenile Delinquency matters. (San Rafael, CA)
  

Consumer Protection

• Marin County District Attorney
  The Consumer Protection Unit is responsible for handling a broad spectrum of consumer protection activities. Its focus is to protect honest citizens from fraudulent or dishonest business practices. They have four major areas of concern: enforcement, mediation, referral, and outreach. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County Mediation Services
  Mediation Services was established in 1980 to offer the public an alternative to court as a way of resolving disputes in a variety of areas. Professionally trained and experienced Mediators help to facilitate resolutions for parties in conflict and for victims in Juvenile Delinquency matters. (San Rafael, CA)
  

Fraud

• Marin County District Attorney
  The Consumer Protection Unit is responsible for handling a broad spectrum of consumer protection activities. Its focus is to protect honest citizens from fraudulent or dishonest business practices. They have four major areas of concern: enforcement, mediation, referral, and outreach. (San Rafael, CA)
  

Housing

• Marin County Fair Housing (FHOM)
  FHOM's community programs promote human rights and diversity in Marin neighborhoods. In addition to their services for individuals and housing providers, Fair Housing of Marin also produces a variety of education, outreach and advocacy programs whose goals are to strengthen human rights and diversity in Marin county. (San Rafael, CA)
  
• Marin County Mediation Services
  Mediation Services was established in 1980 to offer the public an alternative to court as a way of resolving disputes in a variety of areas. Professionally trained and experienced Mediators help to facilitate resolutions for parties in conflict and for victims in Juvenile Delinquency matters. (San Rafael, CA)
  

Legal Assistance

• Legal Aid of Marin County
  Legal Aid’s mission is to improve social justice, economic equity, and opportunity and to assure due process and equal protection of the law by providing low-income and vulnerable Marin residents (children, seniors, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the homeless) with access to high-quality, effective legal services, including direct representation and pro per support services, and through affirmative litigation. (San Rafael, CA)
  

Travel

• Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation
  In 1995, the California legislature enacted the Seller of Travel Law, creating the Travel Consumer Restitution Fund for the benefit of consumers located in California who suffer losses as a result of the bankruptcy, cessation of operations, insolvency, or material failure of a seller of travel to provide the transportation or travel services contracted for. The Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation (TCRC) was created to decide… (Larkspur, CA)