What is a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture?
Any person or entity that the FCC determines has willfully or repeatedly violated the indecency, obscenity and/or profanity prohibitions is potentially liable for a forfeiture penalty, which is a monetary sanction paid to the United States Treasury. To impose such a penalty, the FCC must first issue a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture containing the FCC’s preliminary findings and the amount of the proposed forfeiture. That decision contains the Commission’s findings that, based on a preponderance of the evidence, the person or entity at issue has apparently violated the indecency, obscenity, and/or profanity prohibitions. The person or entity against which the penalty is proposed then may respond, in writing, and explain why no such forfeiture penalty should be imposed. The Commission will then issue a forfeiture order formally imposing the monetary sanction if it finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the person or entity has violated the indecency, obscenity or pro
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