Georgia AG: FCC Should Reconsider Jamming Contraband Phones
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr on Tuesday urged the FCC to address allowing jamming to fight contraband cellphones in correctional facilities. “In prisons and jails throughout the country, contraband cell phones are being used to plan and orchestrate violent attacks…
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and other criminal activity, posing a real and substantial safety risk to correctional officers, visitors, inmates, and the public at large,” Carr said. Jamming is “the easiest way to protect the public” from the dangers of contraband cellphone use, Carr added. The wireless industry has embraced managed access systems as the most effective tool for curbing contraband cellphones in prisons (see 2109140049).