Lobby the FCC, KPSC, KTA...everybody!

Yesterday the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the regulatory agency charged with enforcing the nation's communication laws, said the FCC would not be investigating the allegations that the nation's biggest phone companies turned over records of their customers to the National Security Agency without warrants. The chairman claimed that such an investigation might reveal national secrets. Again, how convenient!

You can sign a petition to demand that the FCC take some action on this matter here.

For Kentucky residents, contact the Kentucky Public Service Commission, the chief regulatory agency for the Commonweath's telephone companies. Demand that they launch an immediate investigation of the phone companies' activities here Kentucky and that they issue an immediate cease-and-desist order regarding all such releases of customer information until the matter is resolved. E-mail them at psc.consumer.inquiries@ky.gov or call them at 1-800-772-4636.

You can also e-mail Forest Skaggs III, Executive Director of the Kentucky Telephone Assocation, the main telecom trade group in the state, to demand that his organization investigate and take some action. His e-mail address is forest@kta.org.