Agenda Released for Pai Contraband Cellphone Field Hearing
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai unveiled the agenda and panelists for the April 6 field hearing in Columbia, South Carolina, on inmates’ use of contraband cellphones. The event is to be hosted by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R). It will…
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be live streamed starting at 2 p.m. EDT. The “testimony will shed additional light on the public safety threats posed by inmates’ use of contraband cellphones, as well as the steps we can take to help law enforcement combat this problem,” Pai said in a Monday news release. Among the witnesses is Robert Johnson, a retired captain with the South Carolina Department of Corrections, who was shot six times in a hit ordered by an inmate using a contraband cellphone. Representatives of CTIA and vendors CellAntenna and CellBlox are also scheduled to testify.