Federal Communications Commission FCC 21-008 STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCEL DISSENTING Re: In the Matter of Shekinah Network, Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture, EB-IHD-19- 00029563 In this series of enforcement decisions, the Federal Communications Commission proposes novel fines totaling more than $47 million on non-profit organizations for failing to comply with policies the agency eliminated from its rulebooks more than a year ago. These decisions suffer from a number of substantive and procedural infirmities. But most troubling is that the fines imposed here on the North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation, the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Northern Arizona University Foundation, and other similar non-profit entities with programs to expand educational internet access lack any appropriate sense of proportion. Moreover, they are an unfortunate commentary on the priorities of this agency. During a pandemic when millions of people are struggling to get the connectivity they need to maintain some semblance of modern life, this is a strange use of agency resources. Instead of taking these unreasonably punitive actions, we should be leading with our humanity and finding ways to connect more people to the broadband services they need in crisis. I dissent.