UCC: Talton Still Redacting Key Prison-Calling Data
The United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry protested Talton’s failure to provide data the ministry needs to comment on a Talton petition seeking a waiver of the commission’s rules capping rates for audio and video for incarcerated people provided to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The FCC Wireline Bureau recently reopened the comment cycle on the petition, with initial comments now due Thursday (see 2504240026).
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While UCC “appreciates that the newer Talton filing was filed quickly after our initial letter and that the new filing is much less redacted, the Talton filing nonetheless still redacts key nonproprietary data central to its request,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 23-62. Under existing FCC rules, “all incarcerated people’s communications service rates must be publicly disclosed on a provider’s website … and should not be redacted,” UCC added.