# Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 1999-09-24 · Effective 1999-12-23 · 64 FR 51710
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-24896
- **Category:** broadband
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 51710
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 22
- **Publication date:** 1999-09-24
- **Effective date:** 1999-12-23
- **FCC docket:** CC Docket No. 97-213, FCC 99-230
## Abstract

This document adopts technical requirements for wireline, cellular, and broadband Personal Communications Services (PCS) carriers to comply with the assistance capability requirements prescribed by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA, or the Act). Specifically, the Commission requires that all capabilities of J-STD-025 (interim standard) and six of nine ``punch list'' capabilities requested by the Department of Justice (DoJ)/Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) be implemented by wireline, cellular, and broadband PCS carriers.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/09/24/99-24896/communications-assistance-for-law-enforcement-act)
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