Indiana lawmakers consider crackdown on unsolicited calls

Associated Press: Indiana lawmakers are looking into toughening the state’s regulations for telephone solicitation to combat unwanted, and often illegal, sales calls.

A legislative study committee learned last week that nearly 4,000 telephone solicitation complaints have been filed with Indiana’s attorney general’s office so far this year.

Senior Deputy Attorney General Marguerite Sweeney told the panel, which is tasked with examining automatic dialing machines, “robocalls” and cybersecurity issues, that about 70 percent of unwanted calls are scams.

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