While the bill merely requires all county buildings to post notices that wireless routers are in use, Suffolk County, NY may in practice put signs right at the locations of the routers — this is TBD.
Orange County, NY passed a resolution 19-2 in 2011 calling on the federal government to investigate health hazards of Wi-Fi, cell towers and smart meters. That bill originally called for posting the transmitter-free zone decal featured on this website in the County Building, but the provision failed by one vote out of committee.
Legislators like Melissa Bonacic, daughter of State Senator Bonacic, thought there was a “legal issue” notwithstanding the fact that the measure simply would have implemented the Access Board Guidelines proffered in their 2005 Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) report written in conjunction with the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). The report explained that hard-wired connections would keep a building accessible; barring that the Wi-Fi was to be confined by foil-backed drywall.
By the time that resolution was passed the County Building got soaked by a hurricane and then by a tropical storm a year later, and it hasn’t been used since. Right now Bonacic and colleagues operate out of the County 911 Building which has so many Wi-Fi transmitters, even the lights in the auditorium are controlled by them. The county 911 tower is right on the premises, and the County facilities are now wholly inaccessible to anyone with electromagnetic sensitivity and are unhealthy for those who work on the premises. Another County facility leased on Matthews Street in Goshen has cell transmitters on the roof, so the County in fact does have a “legal issue” because of its failure to preserve the previously electromagnetically hygienic facility.
Key provisions from the aforementioned IEQ report: