Reform Corporations from Inside and Out

To protect against the next Enron, the next Vioxx or Exxon Valdez FTCR presses policymakers for new reforms and goes into court to enforce existing corporate accountability laws.

Protecting Whistleblowers
FTCR sponsored legislation creating the nation's first whistleblower hotline (1-800-952-5225) and expanding California whistleblower protections. Read more about California's whistleblower protections, which were signed into law in 2003.

Ensuring Consumer Privacy
Every year millions of Americans are stung by identity theft. Far more are deluged with junk mail and telemarketing from businesses that know everything about individuals' financial lives.

• Politicians who block consumer privacy protections don't get to maintain their own privacy. FTCR released the social security numbers of politicians who fought privacy protections.
• President Bush lied to voters about his position on personal privacy.
• Federal law seeks to pre-empt state privacy laws.

Corporate Three Strikes Law
Under the law, a corporation is treated as a person, but we can't put crooked corporations behind bars. FTCR has sponosred a three strikes law for corporate crooks that punishes repeat offenders and puts them out of business after three convictions.

• Cost of Corporate Crime: $1.5 trillion annually. Eliminating repeat offenders: priceless.
• Portrait of a Repeat Offender: Tenet Healthcare Corporation
• View a partial list of repeat offenders.

How Do US Cities Rate on Corporate Power
FTCR graded cities based on how much latitude the city gives to socially objectionable corporate practices and how well cities control corporate power. (To download the full detailed grade for each city visit www.corporateering.org.)
San Francisco (A-)
Portland (B)
Seattle (C+)
Boston (C)
Los Angeles (C)
Philadelphia (C-)
New York (D)