• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Crime / Courts / PSC Moves to Protect Victims of Abuse

PSC Moves to Protect Victims of Abuse

September 29, 2003 By admin Leave a Comment

The Public Service Commission says secrecy is one way to protect domestic abuse victims. Consider this scenario: an abused wife calls a domestic abuse hotline. Later, somebody from the domestic abuse shelter calls back but the abused woman is not at home. Later, her husband checks the caller I-D machine and learns she has called for help and has probably turned him in. What do you think could happen when the wife comes back home? The Public Service Commission has imposed an emergency rule letting some agencies keep their numbers and names from showing up on caller ID machines. The PSC’s Bill Voight says it’s a matter of health, safety and welfare. The Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence took the issue to the Commission several days ago. The rule is in response to that effort. The shelters and law enforcement agencies have to ask the telephone companies to install blocking systems so their numbers don’t show up on home phones. The phone companies cannot charge those agencies for those services. The emergency rule goes into effect October 6th. The Commission expects to make it permanent next spring.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Crime / Courts Tagged With: Domestic Violence, Public Service Commission, Telecommunications, Utilities

Subscribe to our daily newsletter

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.



Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Bad second period dooms Blues

The Blues … [Read More...]

Cards offense falters in loss to Nationals

The … [Read More...]

Royals taker series finale with Angels

Salvador … [Read More...]

Ex-Chiefs coach charged with felony DWI

Former … [Read More...]

Mizzou gets opportunity of a lifetime in 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Out of … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC