Chief Dennis Storemski’s main job is hardening Houston against terror attacks and natural disasters, but his office has also taken on the controversial role of film production. Over the last four years, the Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security has spent $540,000 to produce three short videos dealing with public safety scenarios.
At least some of the seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI’s domestic terrorism watch lists.
Within weeks, police nationwide should be able to obtain free software for matching photos of unidentified suspects against the FBI’s biometric database of 12 million mug shots, according to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence agency.
Facing increasing pressure from drug dealers using ultralight, hard-to-spot aircraft to smuggle drug loads across the border undetected, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a New York company with a $99.9 million contract for detection technology that can find the aircraft.
NBC News A top aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has stepped aside after department officials received new allegations that she made lewd and sexually charged comments to subordinates. Suzanne Barr, the chief of the staff of Homeland Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has “voluntary placed herself on leave” pending the outcome […]
The US Coast Guard has been strengthening its presence in Alaska in order to increase its operations in the Arctic but must rely heavily on the private sector to extend its reach in the area, homeland security officials said this week.
More than 375 million air travelers have gone through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints so far this year. The agency is exploring a new way of handling such a crowd: helpful, multilingual avatars.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday urged Congress to send the president cybersecurity legislation that, at a minimum, would ensure greater sharing of threat information between the public and private sectors.
The ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee and longtime critic of the TSA’s behavioral screening program, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), has asked TSA and congressional homeland security leaders to look into reports of racial profiling under the program at Boston Logan International Airport.
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