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4 Feb 2021, 1:38 pm by Jon Brodkin
(credit: SpaceX) Lobby groups for small ISPs are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether SpaceX can deliver on its broadband promises and to consider blocking the satellite provider's rural-broadband funding. [read post]
An alternative approach is to build a kind of distributed investigative commission on the back of an existing system that already has the ability to investigate misconduct in every important agency in the federal government: the network of inspectors general. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 12:14 pm by Yaron Dori and Rafael Reyneri
On December 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released a Report and Order (“Order”) that imposed certain new restrictions on nonmarketing prerecorded calls to residential lines. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 10:09 am by Harrison Thorne and Paul Cowie
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”)—the agency tasked with enforcing federal labor laws—was deputized by Congress in 1972 with authority to bring lawsuits against employers for violating anti-discrimination laws and retaliating against employees. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 12:53 pm by Mario Dalessandro
The post Clark County Commission Appoints Two Lawmakers for Vacant Legislative Seats appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 12:43 pm by Berin Szóka, Ari Cohn
Consider the Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 Open Internet Order, which classified broadband service as a common carrier service insofar as an internet service provider (ISP) promised connectivity to “substantially all Internet endpoints. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 5:01 am by Paul Rosenzweig
The federal government may currently hold data through other existing programs. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 4:00 am by Ken Chasse
The federal government disallowed a number of these laws as unconstitutionally invading the federal government’s exclusive jurisdiction over “Naturalization and Aliens,” and courts struck down several others as either contrary to the division of powers or in conflict with existing federal law. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 11:58 am by Carlo Aguja
The post Guam Ethics Commission Names Executive Director appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 11:51 am by George Ticoras, Esq.
Today, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) published its price index adjustments for expenditure limitations and the federal lobbyist bundling disclosure threshold. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 11:44 am by George Ticoras, Esq.
The post Federal Political Contribution Limits for 2021-2022 Announced appeared first on State and Federal Communications. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 8:57 am by John Foote
Recent reporting on the human rights crisis in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has revealed the United States to be a major consumer in the global marketplace for forced Uighur labor. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 8:47 am by ACLU
Again and again, commissions convened to examine why police brutality sparks unrest have come to the same conclusion: We must address the poverty and systemic racism that go hand in hand with policing communities of color. [read post]
The DOL and the federal courts have broadly construed the Act’s protections, making it more difficult for employers to prove an employee—even one who is highly paid—falls within one of the overtime exemptions. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Lesley Wexler and Nicola Sharpe
In 2020, it implemented a new requirement for diversity from “underrepresented communities. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 12:49 pm by Mitchell Robinson
Along with signing the “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,”[1] making it the policy of his administration that “the Federal Government should pursue a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all,” Biden appointed former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Jenny Yang to serve as director of the OFCCP. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 9:29 am by William Ford, Victoria Gallegos
Evidence of strong writing skills, including clear and concise communications to a non-specialist audience. [read post]