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Ky. Attorney Gen. Benjamin Chandler urged state legislature to ti...

Ky. Attorney Gen. Benjamin Chandler urged state legislature to tighten “embarrassing” number of exceptions to state’s “no- call” telemarketing list law. Current law allows 22 exemptions, which Chandler said means 95% of telemarketers doing business in Ky. legally can…

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ignore no-call list. He proposed reducing exemptions to just 6: Charities, newspapers selling subscriptions, colleges, public schools, businesses calling current and former customers, home businesses that solicit fewer than 15 customers per week. Chandler also called for tougher penalties for telemarketers who call numbers on no-call list, including criminal prosecution for misdemeanor on first offense and as felony for subsequent offenses.