More counties join Secure Communities – Homeland Security Newswire
On Tuesday, law enforcement agencies in Union, Brunswick, Columbus, Dare, Halifax, Jackson, Lee and Transylvania counties in North Carolina began employing a new information-sharing capability that modernizes the process used accurately to identify criminal aliens in the community.
Feds: Michigan-based religious militia group plotted to kill cops – Detroit Free Press
A tense standoff that ended with the arrest of a ninth member of a multistate Christian militia Monday night capped the end of a three-day raid that had federal and state authorities combing rural areas along the state line.
It’s amazing how events halfway around the globe can change the daily life for us here in the United States. That was the case for anyone who rode DC’s Metro system yesterday, as its police force was very visible following the double suicide bombings in Moscow that killed more than three dozen people. For DC Metro riders, the presence of uniformed police officers with canine units was meant to offer assurance that they were on top of things. But for all of our usage of the word “resilience,” we are not the resilient society we need to be. We’ve made big strides towards becoming that community in many ways, but there is still a cultural weathering that has to take place for the resilient attitude and character to take firm root.
DHS Officials: Removing Visa Overstays an Impossible Mission – CQ Homeland Security
Homeland Security officials told lawmakers Thursday that even if they manage to set up a system that could detect whenever a foreign national overstays a temporary visa, they would not be able to solve the problem of finding and removing all those people.
Spill of National Significance SONS 2010 Exercise Begins Today – iCommandant
Today, the Coast Guard-sponsored DHS Tier II Spill of National Significance (SONS) 2010 exercise begins. The exercise is based upon a scenario in New England involving a collision between an oil tanker and a car carrier causing a catastrophic oil spill. It is an operations-based, full-scale exercise intended to stress all levels of the response organization.
High-Tech Tools Detect Weapons of Mass Destruction at L.A. Port Complex On paper, it reads like a prop list for a high-budget futuristic action thriller: a $3 million high-tech screening ship, a radiation-detecting helicopter and a badge-carrying black Labrador retriever, who can sniff out chemical and biological weapons. But this is no movie. At the […]
California Issues Telework Policy to Curb Cyber-Security Risks – Government Technology
To bolster security and create consistency in California’s IT infrastructure, the Office of the State Chief Information Officer (OCIO) issued a new policy Tuesday, March 2, that includes telework and remote access security standards as well as a compliance form that state agencies must submit by July 1.
By Julie Myers Wood and Dawn Lurie
A recent report conducted on behalf of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) by Westat highlighted what some employers using E-Verify know all too well – when unauthorized workers roll the dice and try to get a job, far too often the E-Verify system lets them win. The report estimates that the inaccuracy rate for unauthorized workers on E-Verify is 54 percent. 54 percent! Those are incredibly tempting odds for those seeking employment. Considering all of the improvements made to the E-Verify system over the past two years, this report is disappointing but will surely serve as a motivator for the government to place additional focus on the number of false positives passing through the system.
After two large snowstorms and a pathetically minor dusting, we can see how Washington responded to emergency weather. As FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate has so aptly put in numerous ways, “It’s time we treated the citizen as an asset and as a member of the response team, rather than as a liability,” and the 2010 Mother Nature Winter rampage has put forward some great issues that public and private sector leaders, as well as citizens, should be acting on.
Intel chief: Al-Qaida likely to attempt attack in next 3 to 6 months – Chicago Tribune
Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday.
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