For the record

2009-03-13 / Community

•An Acorn story last week encouraged cellphone owners to register their numbers with the National Do Not Call Registry at www.donotcall.gov.

While it's advisable that people take this action to prevent unwanted solicitation, it is not true that all of the nation's cellphone numbers will be released to telemarketers en masse in the immediate future. The Federal Communications Commission has issued rules that prohibit telemarketers from using autodialers to call cellphones. Those rules have not changed.

•A story on the upcoming Youth Employment Service Job and Career Expo on Sat., March 28 had the incorrect phone number. The correct number to call is (805) 5224473.

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