Dramatic expansion of DC surveillance camera network – Homeland Security Newswire
The District of Columbia is planning to widen its video surveillance net by adding in thousands of video feeds from private businesses around the nation’s capital.
The recent GAO report, “Federal Agencies Have Taken Steps to Improve E-Verify but Significant Challenges Remain,” paints a fairly optimistic picture of what the executive branch has done to improve E-Verify. Although the federal agencies responsible for E-Verify should be asked many tough questions, many of the issues identified in the report could actually be resolved by Congressional action, such as by comprehensively implementing Real ID.
Napolitano gives first State of Homeland Security address – Security Director Editor’s notes
This afternoon, Secretary Napolitano started a new tradition for the Department of Homeland Security. Just days after President Obama gave the annual State of the Union address, Napolitano decided to specifically address the nation’s security position.
FEMA To Use Social Media For Emergency Response – Information Week
The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to engage the public more in disaster response by sharing data and leveraging reports from mobile phones and social media, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate said today.
Throughout my 25-year career as a sworn law enforcement officer, and having worked for the past five years internationally with law enforcement agencies on their intelligence management initiatives, I have challenged police executives to understand the key elements of Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP) and to employ this approach systematically. Today, as I travel around North America, I still find police agencies collecting volumes of information and – shockingly – not conducting the required analysis to incorporate this information into their strategic responses.
Disagreements over Virtual Fence Decision – HSToday
In the wake of news that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has allowed its virtual fence contract with The Boeing Co. to expire, more border security experts have weighed in on the decision.
Event Security: Lone Star Special – HSToday
From a security standpoint, it’s been a tough couple of years for Texans. On Sept. 24, 2009, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested in Dallas after attempting to detonate what he believed to be a car bomb outside the 60-story Fountain Place—only his detonator turned out to be a decoy supplied by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
DHS Looking to Integrate Resilience Into Everyday Operations – CQ Homeland Security
Despite the government’s emphasis on ensuring the resilience of U.S. infrastructure, little is being done day-to-day to make it happen, a Department of Homeland Security official said Wednesday. But, he said, that’s something that DHS is trying to change.
I hope Americans are awake and trying to obtain information from REAL news sources. At what point in our history did we rewrite the role of the press? For most of my life (and that has been a good while), their role was to report the facts of the news and confirm them before they are broadcast to the world. Clearly some have gone to sleep at the switch and believe that writing an editorial or “opinion piece” is now the news.
In an article published today in CQ Homeland Security, Security Debrief Contributors Rich Cooper, Sam Rosenfeld, James Carafano and Security Debrief founder Chris Battle weighed in on how the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others impacts DHS.
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