UCC and Justice Groups Call on FCC to 'Reverse Course' on IPCS
The FCC should “reverse course” on superseding and suspending its 2024 incarcerated people’s communications services (IPCS) order (see 2506300068), said the United Church of Christ, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, the Pennsylvania Prison Society and other justice reform…
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groups in a letter posted Tuesday in docket 23-62. Evidence in the record shows that jails that providers said would lose service because of the 2024 order haven’t, the letter said. Continued reliance on claims that jails have lost service due to the 2024 order would be “arbitrary and capricious.” It's also arbitrary and capricious for the FCC to vote on the draft IPCS order slated for the Oct. 28 meeting without first taking up the pending application for review challenging the bureau-level suspension of the 2024 order, the groups said, because they address similar issues. “Given that the Commission has considered substantively a number of issues in its order, it is the height of arbitrary and capricious behavior for the Commission to fail to grant or deny the Application, at least as to the issues it will address if the Draft Order is adopted.”