Compliance with FCC ex parte rules has generally improved since the...
Compliance with FCC ex parte rules has generally improved since the agency issued new rules a year ago, General Counsel Austin Schlick said at the Cable Show. The “improvement” occurred after the agency “did quite a bit of outreach” around…
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the rules, “which I think had the effect of reminding practitioners of the requirements,” he said on a Tuesday panel. Schlick identified two areas where he sees filings not meeting requirements, of those he reads. Some don’t refer to the specific page an argument was initially made in, when a lobbying meeting covers ground from an earlier document, Schlick said. “My view is it is our duty to read them for compliance with the rules,” he said of staff reviewing the lobbying disclosures from meetings they attended. “What I see with the ones I get is some trouble with the requirement that it is not sufficient to merely summarize the arguments that were discussed” during a meeting, he said: Generally more than a summary is needed, with details on the topics covered.