California Attorney General Joins 48 Counterparts Urging FCC to Strengthen Robocall Mitigation Database
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on November 10 joined a bipartisan coalition of 48 attorneys general in urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make improvements to its Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) that would help curb illegal robocalls.
According to the Attorney General's office, voice service providers are required to submit a filing with the RMD before they can accept and route call traffic through the U.S. communications network, including information about the provider's business and robocall mitigation practices, and downstream providers may only accept calls from providers included in the database. However, bad actors are currently able to enter and stay in the database with minimal effort and limited impediments.
The coalition urged the FCC to ensure all information in the RMD is accurate and complete and thoroughly vetted before a provider appears in the database, to require additional disclosures covering the use of third parties and related entities, claims of a domestic presence and access to numbering resources, and to make it harder for bad actors to enter or re-enter the database, including by suspending or removing bad actors, strengthening mitigation plan requirements and requiring evidence of solvency.
The attorneys general also urged that providers be held responsible for filings done on their behalf, that providers certify they have not submitted false information, comply with all FCC robocall rules and will respond within 24 hours to traceback requests, that providers subject to FCC removal, suspension or blocking orders notify their customers, that historical RMD filings be made public, and that the improvements be implemented as soon as possible while existing obligations remain in place.
Bonta said robocalls are not just annoying; in many cases they are illegal and a vehicle for harmful scams. Bonta is part of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which launched Operation Robocall Roundup in 2025. In the operation's first phase, the task force sent warning letters to 37 smaller voice providers, and over the last year the FCC has issued subsequent orders to at least 16 of those companies, ordering them to fix their robocall mitigation issues or removing them from the RMD altogether.
(Source: California Attorney General's Office)
Source: California Attorney General's Office
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