Consumer Watchdog

Justin Kloczko writes about tech, energy and insurance for Consumer Watchdog. He’s covered privacy issues extensively, including data collection, privacy rights and legislation, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and surveillance pricing.

He’s a recovering daily newspaper reporter with experience covering local government, education, and the criminal justice system at the Hartford Advocate, Middletown Press, and Manchester Journal Inquirer. His work has appeared in Vice, Daily Beast, The New Republic, KCRW and Los Angeles Magazine.

While covering civil litigation at the Los Angeles Daily Journal he won LA Press Club awards for his stories detailing corruption at the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. The stories led to the criminal prosecutions of multiple city officials. Justin also authored The Debaser, an independent newsletter about LA culture and politics that garnered him an appearance on the ABC/Hulu documentary about disgraced plaintiff’s attorney Tom Girardi called “The Housewife and the Hustler.”

Insurance

The Office of the Elected Insurance Commissioner

Consumer Watchdog - January 2, 1998

In 1988, voter approved Proposition 103 made the California Insurance Commissioner an elective post in order to hold the Commissioner accountable to the public. Prior to Prop 103, commissioners were

Quackenbush Proposes Insurance “Jim Crow” Laws

Consumer Watchdog - October 21, 1997

Proposed Regulations Will Lead to Increased Redlining & Discrimination

Los Angeles Times Confirms Loophole in New Auto Rates

Consumer Watchdog - October 6, 1997

Assembly Committee Moves To Reverse Voters

Consumer Watchdog - September 4, 1997

To Make Insurance Commissioner An Appointed Official

Energy

What Is Wrong with California’s 1996 Deregulation Plan

Consumer Watchdog - September 1, 1997

Electricity is too vital to leave in the hands of unregulated power companies. California's 1996 deregulation law took a bad idea and made it even worse.