Two companies’ robocall practices broke state law, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said while announcing a lawsuit last week. The companies—NaturaLawn of America and The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation—disobeyed the Mississippi Telephone Solicitation Act by making about 1,000 “unauthorized calls” to Mississippians who are on the national Do Not Call Registry, the attorney general’s office alleges in the lawsuit.

“Telemarketing calls are more than an inconvenience, they are often the gateway to scams,” said Attorney General Lynn Fitch. “Protecting Mississippians from robocalls has long been a priority of my office, and I appreciate the Legislature giving us these new tools to investigate and prosecute those who willfully ignore and violate our telemarketing laws.”

House Bill 1225 gives the attorney general the sole authority to prosecute individuals and companies that violate the state’s telemarketing laws. It went into effect July 1.

Fitch is an executive committee member of the Robocall Technology Working Group and a member of the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force Committee.

The attorney general’s office asks Mississippians who received calls from The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation or NaturaLawn of America to email robo-scamcalls@ago.ms.gov.

State Reporter Heather Harrison has won more than a dozen awards for her multi-media journalism work. At Mississippi State University, she studied public relations and broadcast journalism, earning her Communication degree in 2023. For three years, Heather worked at The Reflector student newspaper: first as a staff reporter, then as the news editor and finally, as the editor-in-chief. This is where her passion for politics and government reporting began.
Heather started working at the Mississippi Free Press three days after graduation in 2023. She also worked part time for Starkville Daily News after college covering the Board of Aldermen meetings.
In her free time, Heather likes to sit on the porch, read books and listen to Taylor Swift. A native of Hazlehurst, she now lives in Brandon with her wife and their Boston Terrier, Finley, and calico cat, Ravioli.

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