Blackboard Makes Case for FCC Action on TCPA Petition
Blackboard executives and school administrators asked the FCC to act on the company’s petition seeking clarification of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) rules on calls to wireless phones (see 1503230070). Blackboard, which offers a mass notification platform for schools, said…
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in a series of meetings on the FCC's eighth floor last week that its clients should be able to send texts on emergency weather closures, threat situations, event scheduling or “other important education-related information” without worrying about violating the TCPA. “Unexcused absences are behind the majority of the calls placed and, in many instances, are required by law to be made to ensure parents or guardians are aware their student did not arrive at school or stay at school,” said an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 02-278. “Schools are charged with the health and safety of students while in their care and the telephone numbers expressly provided by guardians every year and updated throughout the year are the only vehicle for communications to address matters critical to student health and safety.”