Aug. 20 Compliance Deadline Set for FCC Domestic Violence Hotline Rules
Providers with more than 100,000 voice service subscriber lines must comply with FCC rules protecting the privacy of calls and texts to domestic violence hotlines by Aug. 20, 2025, said the Wireline Bureau in a public notice Friday. The PN…
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includes database specifications that service providers will use to identify calls and text messages that are bound for domestic violence hotlines -- the November 2023 order implementing the 2022 Safe Connections Act (see 2311150042) pegged the implementation deadline to the release of the database. Smaller providers have a later deadline, defined as 14 months from publication of Friday’s PN. The bureau will later release one or more additional public notices announcing the download file naming convention for the database, the means by which Service Providers can arrange secure access to the download file, and the availability of the initial database download file for testing, the PN said.