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Indiana Senate Bill 180 making progress
<\/strong>Senate Bill 180 is on its way for a vote with the Senate Appropriations Committee after successfully making its way out of the Indiana Senate Family and Children Services Committee Monday. It now heads to the Senate appropriations committee before it could be voted on by the full state Senate. The Bill would ensure that each foster child in the state would have an Attorney assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal of Bill 180 is to help expediate the process of getting kids out of the foster system and into permanent homes. Other states which have implemented similar laws have reportedly seen the time cut in half for children being caught in the foster system. Some of the funding and implementation logistics are still being worked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attorney General Todd Rokita calls on FCC to protect Hoosiers against foreign robocallers
<\/strong>Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to put measures in place to better prevent foreign-based illegal robocalls aimed at scamming Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHoosiers are sick and tired of getting scam calls, along with everyone else in the country,\u201d Attorney General Rokita said. \u201cBad actors who willfully or blindly enable illegal robocalls have no place in the calling ecosystem. We will continue to fight to stop those calls. We will keep working to protect Hoosiers\u2019 privacy and hard-earned money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October, Attorney General Rokita filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against an Indiana company that allegedly acted as a gateway into the United States for robocallers in India, the Philippines, and Singapore. The robocallers allegedly made more than 5 million phone calls to Hoosiers and hundreds of millions of calls to other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Attorney General Rokita and a bipartisan group of attorneys general are calling for the FCC to require gateway providers \u2014 companies that allow foreign calls into the United States \u2014 to take steps to make it more difficult for robocalls to enter the U.S. telephone network. This includes implementing STIR\/SHAKEN, a caller ID authentication technology that helps prevent spoofed calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gateway providers, the Attorneys General argue in a letter, should be required to implement this technology within 30 days of it becoming a rule. This step would help eliminate spoofed calls \u2014 calls deceptively made to appear to originate from numbers other than their actual source. In December, Attorney General Rokita and a coalition of 51 attorneys general successfully helped to persuade the FCC to shorten by a year the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement STIR\/SHAKEN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attorneys general are also asking the FCC to require these gateway providers to take additional measures to reduce robocalls, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n