The Sidebar: My requests to the NY State & NYC Education Departments to review LifeVac anti-choking device reportedly being used in NYC-area schools [UPDATES: NYC & Lindenhurst Schools drop the LifeVac + reply letter to me from NY State Education Dept.]

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

My requests to the NY State & NYC Education Departments to review LifeVac anti-choking device reportedly being used in NYC-area schools [UPDATES: NYC & Lindenhurst Schools drop the LifeVac + reply letter to me from NY State Education Dept.]

UPDATES

Heimlich remover! Son of ‘maneuver’ inventor wants investigation into anti-choking device at boro schools by Allegra Hobbs, The Brooklyn Paper, January 13, 2016

Via: New potentially life saving device questioned by medical watchdog by Joe Mauceri, WPIX-TV, January 18, 2016

Since the (New York City Department of Education) said it had no knowledge of LifeVac in any of it's schools and added, "The Department of Education does not recommend this device."

Lindenhurst has also pulled the plug on (the plunger).

Click here for a January 27, 2016 response/thank-you letter to me from the NY State Education Department.

My original item is below the hash marks.

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Click here to download a copy of my January 6, 2015 letter to New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

Click here to download a copy of my near-identical January 7, 2015 letter to New York City Education Chancellor Carmen Fariña.