[ RadSafe ] NYC permitting of detectors: NYPD proposes some changes.

[John Jacobus]

I know that after September 11 they were finding a lot of vehicles shipping nuclear medicine doses, and apparently lots of patients post-scans.
   
  Personally, I do not mind the government having laws that serve the public.  I doubt this one does, and apparently so do others.

Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> wrote:
  Feb. 10

        I do not know how many false alarms have been answered, but would like to.  I would be salutary as well to know false alarms as a percentage of genuine alarms, and to have them stratified by type --- rad, bio-hazard, heart attack, shooting, etc --- and stratified by borough and by precinct..  That would give us, and the authorities, some idea of the magnitude of the false alarm problem, whether or not there is a significant problem, and its location(s).  As I noted in a posting yesterday, the Dept. of Homeland Security is the agency pushing this sensor/detector licensing scheme.  It did not come from residents of NYC who are worried about false alarms, nor did it come from the NYC authorities.  Knowing these statistics might also provide some insight into solving any possible problems with false alarms.  

Steven Dapra


At 08:20 AM 2/10/08 -0800, John Jacobus wrote:
  I am not sure if this question was asked or answered, but now many false alarms have the NYC authorities responded to?  I am referring to those that they did not generate themselves, e.g. transportation of nuclear medicine doses.

Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com> wrote: 
    
   Feb. 4

  
   To express it in a way that may be more elegant, the law is still 
  
   unnecessary, and it still gives government too much power.

  
   Steven Dapra


  
   At 10:57 AM 2/4/08 -0500, Clayton J Bradt wrote:

  
   >NYPD is drafting some changes in the proposed law and has drafted proposed
  
   >regs. Below are the most relevant passages. I don't know if these have
  
   >been posted anywhere, I couldn't find them on the City Council web site, so
  
   >I'm just posting excerpts.

  
   [edit]

  
   >As originally written, the law was outrageous and stupid. Now its just
  
   >stupid.
  
   >
  
   >Clayton J. Bradt
  
   >Assistant Bureau Director
  
   >BERP
  
   >NYS Dept. of Health
  
   >518-402-7550

  
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com



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"If history teaches any lesson it is that no nation has an inherent right to greatness.  Greatness has to be earned and continually re-earned."
- Norman Augustine, Chairman of the National Academies Committee 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
       
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