{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5543","number":"5543","name":"Rachel Williams","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-27T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"I live in a neighboring town to Ripon, California. In 2019, four students and three staff members at a local elementary school (Weston Elementary), were diagnosed with cancer. They battled with Sprint and eventually the cell tower was moved away from the school. We need to have safe zones for neighborhoods and schools where these towers are far away. Children are developing and we need to protect them from the harms of EMF's. ","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5543","tags":["cancer-tumors","child-development","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"a9e9e1264ba59ca781ef50d023d18876ec917e9c0ddde66e475a6ffa01068d4f","slug":"cancer-tumors-comment-5543","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5543","body_sha256":"2fad66cda07f07163b8c703dbbd1090de1f27369d17ed5d23340dd378f7224b4","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"children","topics":[{"id":"children","evidence":"ghboring town to Ripon, California. In 2019, four students and three staff members at a local elementary school (Weston Ele"},{"id":"cancer","evidence":" elementary school (Weston Elementary), were diagnosed with cancer. They battled with Sprint and eventually the cell tower was move"},{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":" They battled with Sprint and eventually the cell tower was moved away from the school. We need to have safe zones for neighborhoo"}],"summary":"The commenter describes cancer diagnoses at a California elementary school and relocation of a nearby tower, and requests tower-free buffers around schools and neighborhoods to protect children.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-27T23:26:06Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"c6068a10903c9cc87fd4c65c2a4f62d5e9d25be7c74a753c23136e224c0e6a91","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["children","cancer","infrastructure"],"primary_topic":"children","forum_title":"The commenter describes cancer diagnoses at a California elementary school and relocation of a nearby tow…"}