CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

FCC Issues Declaratory Ruling That the Federal Government and Contractors Acting Within Agency Scope Are Not Subject to the TCPA

On July 5, 2016, the FCC issued a Declaratory Ruling in which it determined that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) “does not apply to calls made by or on behalf of the federal government in the conduct of…