Back in July 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held that robocalls made by the federal government or on its behalf are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The FCC stated that the federal government does not meet the law\u2019s definition of a \u201cperson.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 1991 TCPA law bars people and businesses from placing auto-dialed calls to cell phones, but the FCC concluded that the federal government is exempt from the TCPA, as well as contractors making calls for the federal government\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 as long as the contractor complies with the government\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n
The FCC stated that the goal of the TCPA is not to impede communications from the federal government. Rather, the TCPA is meant to stop other intrusive robocalls calls made to cell phones by commercial companies.<\/p>\n
The FCC\u2019s ruling does not address whether calls made by state and local governments or their agents also are exempt from the TCPA.\u00a0 The ruling also does not provide an exemption for political campaign robocalls. We will continue to report on updates by the FCC on robocall laws and how they related to the TCPA.<\/p>\n
If you have received unwanted and unsolicited robocalls or spam calls on your phone or cell phone, contact<\/a> an experienced robocall lawyer at Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein, P.A.<\/a> today for a consultation to discuss your potential legal claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in July 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) held that robocalls made by the federal government or on its behalf are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The FCC stated that the federal government does not meet the law\u2019s definition of a \u201cperson.\u201d The 1991 TCPA law bars people and businesses from […] ","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[695,694],"tags":[701,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7712,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions\/7712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spamcallattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}