Sign our petition against the JFPA (S.714)

If you've read Junk Fax Prevention Bill of 2005 will LEGALIZE junk faxes! then you KNOW it will LEGALIZE junk faxes! It is critical to show that ethical businesses are opposed to this bill.

If you are authorized by your company to sign on to oppose this bill, please fill out the form below.

It's immensely helpful for us to say to members of Congress that there are MANY businesses which do not want to open up the floodgates to unlimited junk faxes.

If your COMPANY agrees with the following statement, please sign the petition below:

The undersigned companies are against S.714 (Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005) as proposed.

We agree that the "written consent" requirement must be eliminated from the TCPA regulations. S.714 (in Section 2(g)) does that and we need that. That is the good part of S.714.

Unfortunately, S.714, in Section 2(a) through 2(f), creates a brand new loophole in the law called the EBR exemption. We do not need an EBR exemption because we use our fax machine responsibly. We do not know why ANY business or organization that responsibly uses the fax machine requires an EBR exemption in order to send unsolicited advertisements via fax without the recipient's consent.

If S 714 passes with the new EBR exemption, we will see a flood of new junk faxes, and my costs to do "opt-outs" for all of those with all our fax numbers will be an expensive task.

Unlike other advertising mediums, with fax machines you cannot "turn it off." The proposed EBR exemption opens the floodgates to a torrent of junk faxes because it creates a large legal loophole that can easily be exploited by junk faxers. We should be tightening the junk fax law, not adding new exemptions that no business that responsibly uses the fax machine needs.