Is a repo agency accountable to the The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act FDCPA?

Answer 1

With each presented law (legislation) there is "intent". The "intent" of the FDCPA was to ""to prevent the 'suffering and anguish' which occur when a debt collector attempts to collect money which the debtor, through no fault of his own, does not have.""harassing attempts to collect money which the debtor does not have due to misfortune," is not implicated in the situation of a repossession agency that enforces a "present right" to a security interest because in the latter context, "an enforcer of a security interest with a 'present right' to a piece of secured property attempts to retrieve something which another person possesses but which the holder of the security interest still owns.""Unlike the debtor who lacks the money sought, the possessor of secured property still has control of the property. Any failure to return the property to the rightful owner occurs not through misfortune but through a deliberate decision by the present possessor to avoid returning the property.""The legislative history confirms that Congress intended an enforcer of a security interest, such as a repossession agency, to fall outside the ambit of the FDCPA"