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Homeland Security: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management

Hard Questions in Emergency Critical Care

07/29/2008 - The federal government and the medical profession face a thorny question: who would and would not receive emergency treatment during a pandemic or large-scale emergency?
Homeland Security: Surveillance

Fusion Centers and Civil Rights

07/29/2008 - A legal battle over public access to data collected by fusion centers could affect the government's information-gathering methods.
Homeland Security: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management

Pandemic Flu

07/28/2008 - The ACLU slams the federal government for pursuing a "law enforcement and national security" approach to the threat of pandemic influenza, rather than a public health approach.
Homeland Security: Terrorism

Questioning Aid

06/25/2008 - The Government Accountability Office criticizes how funds for the State Department's Antiterrorism Assistance program are used.
Homeland Security: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management

State Perspective - Idaho

06/24/2008 - Interview with Col. William Shawver, director of the Idaho Bureau of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security: Surveillance

Homeland Security: Lost in Space?

06/24/2008 - The Department of Homeland Security will likely face opposition in the courts if it goes ahead with its plans to redirect its spy satellites on domestic targets, says the Congressional Research Service.
Homeland Security: Intelligence

Intelligence Sharing Improves

06/24/2008 - A new team of analysts sifts through national security intelligence to find items relevant to state and local officials.
Homeland Security: Intelligence

Information Sharing

06/24/2008 - The Interagency Threat Assessment Coordination Group (ITACG) is up and runnning at the National Counterterrorism Center, distilling international- and national-level intelligence for use by state and local agencies, administrators recently told lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Homeland Security: Port Security

Port Public-Private Partnerships

06/24/2008 - Officials in Harris County, Texas, home to the Port of Houston, are pursuing a novel approach to fund port-wide security, specifically the local matching funds required by federal Port Security Grant Program awards. The Texas legislature has authorized establishment of a self-governed management district that could levy supplemental property taxes, solely for funding matching requirements.
Homeland Security: Border Security

Numbers

05/27/2008 - 18 The percentage drop in apprehensions at the southern border for the first quarter of 2008. According to testimony by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the reduction is a trend (apprehensions dropped 20 percent overall in 2007 from the previous year) and indicates that fewer immigrants are attempting to enter the country illegally.
Homeland Security: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management

State Perspective - Oklahoma

05/27/2008 - Interview with Kerry Pettingill, director of the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security: Terrorism

Calculating the Margin of Terror

05/27/2008 - A new behavioral modeling software program tries to predict how a terrorist organization will act given an environmental variable.
Homeland Security: Port Security

Probing Ports' Murky Depths

05/27/2008 - A new sonar array installed at a port in New Hampshire monitors underwater areas for suspicious activity.
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