ARLA/CLUSTER: FCC propõe multa de 400.000 dólares por transmissão não autorizada da policia e interferencias

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

FCC proposes $400,000 fine on jammer

The FCC has proposed a fine of more than $400,000 on a Queens, New
York, man who has admitted making unauthorized transmissions on New
York City Police Department (NYPD) radio frequencies, maliciously
interfering with NYPD officers’ communications

The ARRL report:

Peralta, 20, is alleged to have transmitted false bomb threats, false
claims of criminal activities involving firearms, false distress calls
from purported NYPD officers, and threats against individual NYPD
officers. The unauthorized transmissions began a year ago, according
to the FCC.

“Through his actions, as he described them to the NYPD, Mr. Peralta
has demonstrated not only a deliberate disregard of the Commission’s
authority and rules, but of the safety of NYPD officers and the public
that they are called to serve and protect,” the FCC said in a Notice
of Apparent Liability (NAL), issued on April 14. “Commission action in
this context is therefore essential to safeguard authorized operations
on spectrum licensed for public safety uses, and, accordingly, a
substantial penalty appears warranted.”

The FCC said the NAL addresses nine unauthorized and interfering
transmissions that Peralta has admitted to the NYPD that he made on
its radio system. The FCC said Peralta’s unauthorized transmissions
included false bomb threats, false claims of criminal activities
involving firearms, false distress calls from purported NYPD officers,
and threats against individual NYPD officers.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, said that with the NAL, the FCC is making it
“abundantly clear that it will not tolerate unauthorized and illegal
use of the radio spectrum.” The entire Commission now must sign off on
such proposed fines, and Pai said he was grateful to his fellow FCC
members for “agreeing to act swiftly and strongly” in the matter.
“This may not be a typical pirate radio case in which an unauthorized
operator inflicts damage on a radio broadcaster that is operating with
a valid FCC license,” Pai said, “but it does involve unauthorized
interference to critical public safety communications systems.”

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-proposes-levying-huge-fine-on-new-york-police-radio-jammer