 While at Kornarens and Howard, Howard drafted an initiative that according to Edmund Sanders, in the Los Angeles Times (1999) would " allow identity theft victims to require that banks, credit card companies and others delete their names and personal information from marketing lists.. [and] prevent banks from continuing to spread any misinformation about consumers through unsolicited credit card offers and other junk mail.The measure would also allow a consumer to collect damages from a bank or credit card company that sold his or her account numbers to anyone convicted of a felony who then used the information to victimize the consumer.