STATE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS
State/Docket |
Proceeding |
Status |
Alabama
Docket No. 3063 |
Inmate Telephone Service (ITS)
Jurisdiction Proceeding
(Contended that Public Services Commission (PSC) lacked jurisdiction to regulate prison phones) |
Alabama PSC retained jurisdiction over ITS rules and rates |
Alabama
Docket No. 15957 |
ITS Rules and Rates |
3 March 2009 - Rates established: 50¢ per minute for local calls and 30¢ per minute for toll calls - maximum charge on a 20 minute call to $2.75 for a local call and $8.25 for a long-distance call (plus applicable taxes).
|
Florida
Docket No. 060614-TC |
Compliance Investigation of TCG Public Communications, Inc. to Determine Amount of Overcharges for
Disconnected Inmate Collect Calls |
September 8, 2008 Staff Recommendation Refund approximately $6.3M million in overcharges plus interest and more than $1.2 million in fines;
3-Way Call Investigation of Evercom and Global.
18 August 2009, the Public Service Commission settled with TCG Public Communications for $1.25 million deposited into the State's General Revenue Fund; TCG to be monitored for 18-months |
New Mexico
Case No. 07-00316-UT
|
ITS Rates and Charges |
On-going Review of ITS Rates
And Payment Fees |
New Mexico
Case No. 07-00442-UT
|
Untariffed (Unapproved) Payment Fees
Enforcement Proceeding |
On-going Investigation of
Untariffed Payment Fees to
Determine Refunds and Penalties |
|
Seeking approval to deny refunds on Prepaid Institutional Calling Services; two seeking permission to impose a “processing fee” for payment by Credit Card/Check-by-Phone payments; three kinds of non-approved fees – “recharge fees” (billed when a customer reopens an account), service fees (charged to customers setting up an account for the first time), and processing fees – imposed either by a service provider or a third party business – for processing a customer's payment. |
Pending investigations |
North Carolina
P100, SUB 84C
|
Request for Waiver of Rule 13-9(d)
of the Rules of NC Utilities Commission |
Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Revised Rule and Established Rate Cap of $1.71 on all Local Collect Calls |
National Overview and Update
