{"id":4105,"date":"2016-01-21T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2024-08-05T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T17:41:03","slug":"loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/loopholes\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC&#8217;s next regulations should cinch loopholes and address video visitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/fcc-order-2015\/\">FCC&#8217;s call for further comments<\/a> on their regulations of the prison and jail phone industry, we submitted our analysis of and recommendations on four unresolved issues:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/phones\/filings\/60001379669.pdf\">Single Calls<\/a>: we explain how the FCC&#8217;s attempt to rein in &#8220;single call&#8221; programs left a significant loophole that can be easily closed.\n\t<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/phones\/filings\/60001379532.pdf\">Western Union and MoneyGram<\/a>: we highlight an unintentional loophole in the FCC&#8217;s regulation of fee-sharing schemes between the phone companies and money transfer providers, and suggest that the FCC could instead copy Alabama&#8217;s solution to the problem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/phones\/filings\/60001379538.pdf\">Bundling unrelated services<\/a>: we outline how bundling phone services with unrelated financial and other technology services is creating a growing opportunity for companies to create an end run around the FCC&#8217;s current regulations in the short term as well as undermine the FCC&#8217;s long-term goals of fostering a self-regulating ICS market through competition.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/phones\/filings\/60001379401.pdf\">Video visitation<\/a>: we updated the FCC on issues surrounding video visitation, showing that a national consensus has developed acknowledging that the growing trend of video visitation replacing traditional in-person visitation is a major step in the wrong direction and providing 5 recommendations for regulation.<\/li>\n<p>\nReply comments are due February 1, and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/filings\/standard\">submitted online<\/a> for docket number 12-375.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the FCC&#8217;s request for comments, we submitted four analyses of unresolved issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[12],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16273,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/16273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}