Securus: FCC Should Let IPCS Providers Recover Security and Safety Costs

Securus urged the FCC to let providers of incarcerated people's communications services (IPCS) recover the cost of safety and security features. In a meeting with an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr (see 2307130070), the IPCS provider said that including such features as recoverable costs is "a long-standing precedent in the commission's IPCS rulemaking." Ending recoverable costs, Securus warned, has the potential of affecting budgets and practices at correctional agencies, according to an ex parte filing Tuesday in docket 23-62. In addition, it said shifting costs will "put further strain on the budgets for providing services to incarcerated people" and cause providers to "compete for scarcer funding."