Since Congress enacted the PIRATE Act - an acronym for Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement - the Federal Communications Commission has been responsible for reporting its annual activities with the enhanced power it was given through the January 2020 legislation. Its most recent report covers the government's fiscal year for 2025, which ran from the 1st of October 2024 through to the 30th of September 2025.

According to the report, the FCC issued 28 notices to property owners or managers for permitting illegal broadcasts from their premises. Seventeen of those were directly related to one of the so-called "pirate sweeps" the FCC conducts concentrating on five markets found to have the most pirate stations.

In the same period, the FCC went directly after the radio operators themselves, issuing six forfeiture orders and 10 notices of apparent liability for forfeiture. Separately, it entered into three consent decree agreements with radio pirates. Each agreement contained a 20-year compliance plan.

It is not known what the total monetary penalties will ultimately be for any of the violations issued, even though the amounts specified in the original PIRATE Act have increased over the years. Adjusted for inflation, the penalties now carry a maximum of $122,661 in US dollars per day - and a US dollar maximum of $2,453,218.

Although the FCC is responsible for these enforcement actions, the agency does not collect the amounts. That task is given to the US Department of Justice.