Local Regulators Question FCC Authority on Inmate Calling Reforms

摘要

Key aspects of the Further NPRM on inmate phone call charges circulating at the FCC are being opposed by local regulators. The FCC lacks legal authority to cap intrastate inmate calling rates or preempt local public utilities commissions' decisions, NARUC said in a statement to us. The Alabama Public Service Commission also challenged the agency’s legal authority to bar the commissions that inmate calling service (ICS) providers pay to jails and prisons, as the FCC would also propose.