August 2024 Open Commission Meeting

Aug
07
2024

August 2024 Open Commission Meeting

1:15 pm - 3:15 pm EDT
Commission Meeting Room, FCC Headquarters, 45 L Street NE, Washington, DC 20554
 

 

 
 
 

The FCC held this Open Meeting on the subjects listed below:

 
 
 

Public Drafts of Meeting Items – The FCC is publicly releasing the draft text of each item expected to be considered at this Open Commission Meeting with the exception of items involving specific, enforcement-related matters including restricted proceedings and hearing designation orders. One-page cover sheets are included in the public drafts to help summarize each item. Links to these materials are provided below.

 
  • Establishing a Missing and Endangered Persons Alert Code
    The Commission considered a Report and Order to establish a Missing and Endangered Persons event code that will provide law enforcement, EAS Participants, and WEA providers with a means to quickly disseminate information pertaining to missing and endangered persons cases. (PS Docket Nos. 15-91, 15-94)
  • Protecting Consumers from Unwanted Artificial Intelligence Robocalls
    The Commission considered a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would propose steps to protect consumers from the abuse of AI in robocalls and robotexts alongside actions that clear the path for positive uses of AI, including its use to improve access to the telephone network for people with disabilities. (CG Docket No. 23-362)
  • Strengthening a Key Tool for Combatting Robocalls
    The Commission considered a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would propose and seek comment on procedural measures to promote the highest level of diligence when providers submit required information to the Robocall Mitigation Database, technical validation solutions to identify data discrepancies in filings, and accountability measures to ensure and improve the overall quality of submissions in the Robocall Mitigation Database. (WC Docket No. 24-213; MD Docket No. 10-234)

  • Restricted Adjudicatory Matter*
    The Commission considered a restricted adjudicatory matter allowing low-power FM station KPPS-LP to request reinstatement of an application to change channel and relocate its transmitter, and rescinding the grant of a conflicting FM Translator application.

     
  • Peralta Forfeiture Order*
    The Commission considered a Forfeiture Order that affirms a fine of $2,316,034 against Johnny Peralta for pirate radio broadcasting on 105.7 MHz in the Bronx, New York.
 
 

*NOTE: These items were adopted prior to the Open Meeting and thus deleted from the agenda of the meeting itself.

 
 
 
 

Meeting Documents

 

FCC Adopts New Alert Code for Missing & Endangered Persons

 

FCC Proposes First AI-Generated Robocall & Robotext Rules

 

FCC Looks to Further Strengthen Its Robocall Mitigation Database

 

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