Sen. Chuck Schumer Petitions FCC For Waiver To Thwart Caller ID Blocks At Jewish Community Centers

The Buffalo News reports:

The people calling in bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers in Buffalo and across the country will lose their cloak of anonymity if Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer gets his way.

The New York Democrat on Wednesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant a waiver to the nation’s Jewish Community Centers and others that have been targeted with recent bomb threats. That waiver would remove the block on caller IDs for anyone who calls those facilities.

“Perpetrators terrorizing Jewish communities across the country — and here in New York — should not be allowed to hide in the shadows,” Schumer said. “We cannot give these fearmongering criminals protection when they are instilling hate and panic.”

Both branches of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo were evacuated Feb. 20 after bomb threats. Those threats were part of a wave of at least 69 incidents targeting 54 such centers in 28 states.

The FCC’s chairman is a recent Trump appointee.