There is nothing in the FCRA that requires one party to delete their reporting of accurate information based on another party also having authority to report their own activities or information.
Many debt collectors will delete their prior reporting upon termination of collection authority, if for no other reason than to foreclose having to address any subsequent FCRA disputes over their reporting, but it is not mandated.
The separate reporting by two debt collectors is NOT duplicate reporting of the same information. They each had or have their own legitimate collection authority, at different times. What would be improper is for two debt collectors to report simultaneous collection authority.
A collection is not necessarily the reporting of any debt owed to them. They may only be an assignee of collection authority. They are reporting collection activity on the debt.
I see no basis for compelling deletion of either.
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