PK, UCC Seek FCC Action on ICS Site Commissions

Public Knowledge and the United Church of Christ want the FCC to emphasize proposed treatment of site commissions for inmate calling services is interim and to determine whether commissions are legitimate, said filings posted Monday in docket 12-375 (see 2105120031). Site commissions don't belong in ICS rates, PK and UCC told commissioners' staff. They urged preempting site commission payments that would cause ICS rates to exceed the interim cap or "make clear its intention promptly to preempt them and take immediate steps to do so." Wright Petitioners told commissioners' advisers treating "legally-mandated facility rate components" as legitimate costs "creates an incentive for providers to lobby state and local governments to enact statutes that establish unreasonable or open-ended site commissions."