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Linda Sherry

Director, National Priorities, Consumer Action

http://www.consumer-action.org

editor@consumer-action.org

Linda Sherry, Consumer Action’s director of national priorities and one of the organization’s chief spokespersons, joined the San Francisco-based national consumer education and advocacy group in 1994 from a background as a weekly newspaper reporter.

Consumer Action (www.consumer-action.org), founded in 1971, has a national reputation for free multilingual consumer education on personal finance issues.

Sherry, who moved to Washington, DC, in August 2004 to establish an office for Consumer Action, is responsible for the organization’s national advocacy work and for the research and writing of Consumer Action’s free educational publications and web site content. Her recent projects for Consumer Action include publications on home buying, credit card terms and conditions, bankruptcy, ID theft, Internet privacy, cell phones and investing vs. savings. Sherry is chief surveyor and coordinator of Consumer Action’s popular pricing surveys of rates for credit cards and telephone services. She is the editor of Consumer Action’s newsletter, Consumer Action News.

Sherry has received awards for Consumer Action publications from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (Excellence in Consumer Education, 1996, 2000 and 2003) and U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs (1995 National Consumer Week). Sherry serves as a member of the National Consumers League Fraud Alliance steering committee.

Before joining Consumer Action, Sherry was managing editor of AsianWeek in San Francisco from 1991-1994. Previously she was a reporter at The Almanac newspapers in Menlo Park, CA; The New York Times Long Island Section and The East Hampton Star in East Hampton, NY. She was the founding editor of the Sag Harbor Herald, a weekly newspaper in Long Island, NY.

What should I do if the police will not take my complaint?

In this video, Linda Sherry details the best ways to prevent identity theft and what you can do if you think your identity has been stolen.

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Linda Sherry: It used to be a big problem with ID theft victims, who want it to get a police they go to the local police and the police would say, you know, we don't know what you are talking about. This isn't so much the case anymore, but I suppose it could happen in some places. You go to your police, you say to your policeman, you need this report and when you get the report, get a copy of it and take it away. If the police give you trouble about this, call up your State Attorney General's office because many states have laws that say that the local police have to create these reports. If that's not the case in your state and the local police still can't help you call up the Sheriff or the other County Law Enforcement Agency or the State Police and see if they can help you.