WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Legislation would strengthen federal protections for copper, fiber, and coaxial cables
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) introduced the Combating Critical Infrastructure Vandalism Act, bipartisan legislation to combat the growing problem of theft and vandalism targeting critical infrastructure used to provide telecommunications and information services. The bill would strengthen federal protections for critical communications networks by making the willful or malicious theft, destruction, or damage of copper, fiber, and coaxial cables used to provide telecommunications and information services a federal criminal offe...