FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – June 23, 2017 – Attorney Gary I. Resnick, shareholder in GrayRobinson’s Fort Lauderdale law firm office, chair of the firm’s Communications, Cable and Broadband Law practice group and co-vice chair of the Information Technology and Communications Committee (ITC) of the National League of Cities (NLC), presented at the committee’s Summer Board and Leadership Meeting on June 19-21, 2017, in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Resnick discussed state legislation related to deployment of communications infrastructure in the public rights of way and FCC rulemakings that may preempt state and local government authority over such infrastructure deployment.
The NLC’s ITC Committee is responsible for developing policy positions on issues involving telecommunications and information systems (and public access to these systems), privacy concerns, cable TV, phone services, spectrum issues, communications tower siting, universal service, broadcasting and defense of city rights-of-way from degradation caused by installation of communications facilities. Read more about the Information Technology and Communications Committee.