FCC Looking to Help Jewish Centers, Law Enforcement Combat Threats
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is "very concerned" about bomb threats to Jewish community centers across the country, a spokesman said in a statement Wednesday responding to a waiver request from Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "These threats have instilled…
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fear and disrupted lives throughout the United States, and Chairman Pai condemns such anti-Semitic acts in the strongest possible terms. The FCC is actively exploring what steps the FCC can take quickly to help Jewish Community Centers and law enforcement combat these threats.” The commission also sent a tweet. Jewish-affiliated organizations have seen a number of recent incidents of vandalism, bomb threats and other crimes that some contend are hate crimes. To help address threatening calls in a New York community last year, the commission in April granted the Enlarged City School District of Middletown a waiver from a phone rule prohibiting terminating carriers from passing on a calling party's number when that party has made a privacy request. That was intended to help security and law enforcement personnel respond rapidly to threatening calls, subject to certain privacy safeguards (see 1604140043).