Some months ago that Scott McCollough took an FCC opportunity for comment re "Disability, Inclusion & Equity" (DEI) to Children's Health Defense to see if they would sign on, and they did. So along with Odette Wilkins, President of Wired Broadband, Inc. we created a paper on the need for the EMS Disabled in this country to be accommodated. This is not precisely what the FCC was looking for, but Scott saw an opening and we took it. That paper was submitted May 16. There is a big push through the current administration to make sure that all federal programs adhere to DEI. The FCC, of course, is looking at this from the perspective of offering wireless devices to those members of the larger disability community who use wireless because of another type of disability. We took advantage of the opportunity to educate the FCC. Odette has been continuing to submit a variation of the paper to other agencies so we can spread the word that we are here at numbers that would suggest between 9 million & 99 million people in the United States fall somewhere on the EMS/EHS spectrum.

This was an excellent opportunity to come in and make the case for individuals and with all of us collectively as a group, Advocates for the EMS Disabled. Because we finished the paper literally hours before it was due, there was not time to circulate as we would have liked on May 16. Reply Comments are due tomorrow, June 30. We will be filing in the early evening on June 30.

Children's Health Defense created an advocacy program which made it easy for people to contact the FCC with a standard letter or comments of their own asking for the following:

1) Fiber to the premises as is encouraged through the Biden Administration's BEAD Program;

2) Recognition of EMS/EHS as a disability and accommodation through fiber to the premises as well as public zones that are wireless-free.

3) We also gave people the opportunity to express something personal about their EMS/EHS disability.

Here's what we found and are communicating to the FCC in the attached paper: Over 50% of the total respondents asked for fiber to the premises, over 62% asked for recognition of EMS as a disability with accommodation including wireless free zones, and over 65% wrote to the FCC saying they were electrosensitive and there were some very moving
examples of how restricted so many of us are.

We offer direct quotes from the comments in all three categories and then Scott closed advising the FCC that these comments cry out for accommodation and relief. Attached please find our REPLY COMMENTS FOR ADVOCATES FOR THE EMS DISABLED.

If you would like to sign on again, or for the first time, please contact me no later than tomorrow, 6/30, at 3 PM Mountain Time. Please contact me at the following email address: susan.foster@dotlaw.biz and let me know the following:

NAME

HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN ON; e.g. Susan Foster, Medical Writer.

Thank you so much. We believe everyone should be accommodated regardless of the form their disability takes. We will not rest until that is so. Thank you to everyone who has contributed thoughts and time to both papers. Apologies for those of you who receive this from both my list and Odette's.

Our best to all,

Susan, Scott & Odette

SUSAN FOSTER
McCollough Law Firm
PO Box 1444
Lyons, CO 80540
858-756-3532
susan.foster@dotlaw.biz