Attorney General and a bipartisan coalition of 48 attorneys general urged the Federal Communications Commission to strengthen its Robocall Mitigation Database, the attorney general’s office said.
The office said the RMD currently allows bad actors to enter and remain in the database with minimal effort; the coalition asked the FCC to thoroughly vet filings before allowing providers to send call traffic and to require additional disclosures about third parties, related entities, domestic‑presence claims and access to numbering resources.
The coalition supported tougher rules to suspend or remove bad actors, stronger filing formats and content for robocall mitigation plans, evidence of solvency from filers, and holding providers responsible for submissions made on their behalf even when a third party files for them.
The office said providers should be required to certify they have not submitted false information, are in compliance with FCC robocall rules and will respond to traceback requests within 24 hours; it also urged rules requiring providers to notify calling customers when an upstream provider is subject to an FCC removal, suspension or blocking order, and to allow downstream providers to notify those same customers.
Bonta is part of the Anti‑Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which launched Operation Robocall Roundup in 2025; in Phase 1 the Task Force sent warning letters to 37 smaller voice providers and the FCC later issued orders to at least 16 of those companies, the office said. Phase 2 expanded enforcement to four large intermediate providers and pressed for stronger Know Your Customer and Know Your Upstream Provider rules.
The attorney general’s office said the requested changes would make the RMD a more reliable barrier to illegal call traffic and better protect consumers from scam calls, and it urged the FCC to adopt the proposals quickly.
“Robocalls bombard us with never‑ending voicemails and disrupt our lives. Robocalls aren’t just annoying, in many cases, they are illegal and a vehicle for harmful scams that can result in real financial losses for consumers,” Attorney General Bonta said.
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Rob Bonta
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