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Managing Public Information During a High-Profile Incident
"Media coverage of a high-profile incident can contribute to the spread of misinformation, thus hindering emergency response and recovery activities. Public information officers (PIOs) can minimize such problems through planning, organization, and quick and consistent communications."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Emergency Communications: Notifying Responders of Gateway Activation and Deactivation
"Communication unit leaders (COML) should notify all responders of gateway patch activation and deactivation over the radio network."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Emergency Communications: Using Plain Language During a Multi-Agency Incident Response
"Jurisdictions should encourage regional responders and communications specialists to use plain language when communicating with other emergency response agencies during an incident."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Engagement of Urgent Care Centers in Medical Surge Activities
"Urgent care centers are a growing presence in the healthcare marketplace, with more than 8,100 locations nationwide. Yet, limited information is available about ongoing preparedness activities among urgent care centers or their readiness to contribute to the healthcare system response to emergencies and disasters. ASPR TRACIE [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange] conducted 18 interviews with urgent care center leaders associated with centers in 44 states to capture a snapshot of current activities and perceptions. A key finding from the interviews was that urgent care centers are willing to participate in emergency preparedness and response efforts and have personnel skilled in providing the types of services that may be needed during a disaster. However, many have not been engaged in such efforts and lack knowledge of how to get involved or sustain their efforts. The following questions and answers may assist urgent care centers and health care coalitions and other partners to engage with and support each other's activities."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
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Public Information: Oklahoma's Weather Alert Remote Notification System for Citizens Who Are Deaf or Hard-Of-Hearing
"Oklahoma Weather Alert Remote Notification (OK-WARN) provides free National Weather Service emergency and disaster alerts for Oklahoma residents who are deaf or hard-of-hearing through email, pager, or text messages."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Interoperable Communications: Identifying All Shared Radio Frequencies by Common, Region-Wide Nomenclature
"All shared radio frequencies should be identified by common, region-wide nomenclature. Emergency response organizations should consider creating a region-wide template for programming each organization's radios based on uniform terminology wherever possible."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Hate Crime Statistics 2013
This is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) 2013 Hate Crime Statistics webpage. The FBI's annual Hate Crime Statistics webpage is comprised of data collected by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. "On April 23, 1990, Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act, 28 U.S.C. § 534, which required the Attorney General to collect data 'about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.' The Attorney General delegated the responsibilities of developing the procedures for implementing, collecting, and managing hate crime data to the Director of the FBI, who, in turn, assigned the tasks to the UCR Program. Under the direction of the Attorney General and with the cooperation and assistance of many local and state law enforcement agencies, the UCR Program created a hate crime data collection to comply with the congressional mandate. […] The designers of the Hate Crime Statistics Program sought to capture information about the types of bias that motivate crimes, the nature of the offenses, and some information about the victims and offenders. […] The hate crime data in this Web publication comprise a subset of information that law enforcement agencies submit to the UCR Program." This interactive webpage allows readers to browse hate crime statistics by the following five categories: Incidents and Offenses, Victims, Offenders, Location Type, and Hate Crime by Jurisdiction. For each category, readers can view statistical tables, learn important notes about the data collected, and review an overview of the data for that category.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Crime in the United States, 2015
"Since 1996, editions of Crime in the United States have been available on the FBI's Web site, www.fbi.gov. First released in Portable Document Format (PDF) files, more recent editions have been published as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program staff are committed to improving their annual publications so that the data they collect can better meet the needs of law enforcement, criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the media, and other students of criminal justice who use the statistics for varied administrative, research, and planning purposes. For more information about how the UCR Program collects data, see About the Uniform Crime Reporting Program."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Hate Crime Statistics 2016
This repository of hate crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation contains information and data regarding hate crimes in the United States as of 2016 and including recent developments. The data can be sorted by the following categories: incidents and offenses, victims, offenders, location type, and hate crime by jurisdiction. The webpage also includes additional reports on Federal crime data, human trafficking, and cargo theft.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Hate Crime Statistics 2015
This repository of hate crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation contains information and data regarding hate crimes in the United States as of 2015 and including recent developments. The data can be sorted by the following categories: incidents and offenses, victims, offenders, location type, and hate crime by jurisdiction. The webpage also includes additional reports on Federal crime data, human trafficking, and cargo theft.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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National Firewise Communities Program: A Resource for State and Local Agencies
"The national Firewise Communities program is a multi-agency effort designed to reach beyond the fire service by involving homeowners, community leaders, planners, developers, and others in the effort to protect people, property, and natural resources from the risk of wildland fire - before a fire starts. The Firewise Communities approach emphasizes community responsibility for the design and maintenance of a safe community, including sound land use planning, creative mitigation measures, supportive infrastructure, collaborative decision making, and effective emergency response."
National Wildfire Coordinating Group (U.S.); Firewise Communities
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Emergency Management: Assigning a Military Liaison Officer to the State Emergency Operations Center
"State National Guard units should consider appointing a designated liaison officer to the state emergency operations center (EOC). This individual could provide information regarding military resource capabilities to EOC staff and could participate in joint training, exercises, and operations on a routine basis."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Emergency Management: Providing Geographic Information Systems and Information Technology Resources to Emergency Operations Centers
"Emergency managers should consider making provisions for permanently providing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Information Technology (IT) resources at an Emergency Operations Center (EOC). This can help ensure that EOC personnel have continuous access to geospatial resources when responding to a large-scale incident."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Protecting Unaccompanied Alien Children from Trafficking and Other Abuses: The Role of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
This is a Staff Report of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. This Report addresses concerns regarding the thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) that arrive in the U.S. annually: "Each year, thousands of UACs enter the United States, unaccompanied by their parents or relatives and are taken into U.S. custody. Congress has tasked the Department of Health and Human Services's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with finding appropriate homes in which to place UACs temporarily pending the resolution of their immigration proceedings. Through procedures described below, HHS attempts to place each UAC with a suitable adult sponsor--someone who can care for them and ensure their appearance at their immigration hearings. [...] Over a period of four months in 2014, however, HHS placed a number of UACs in the hands of a ring of human traffickers who forced them to work on egg farms in and around Marion, Ohio, leading to a July 2015 federal criminal indictment. [...] The Subcommittee sought to determine whether the Marion placements were caused by a tragic series of missteps or more systemic deficiencies in HHS's UAC placement process. The Subcommittee reviewed 65 case files of UACs placed by ORR, including 34 UACs whose files contained at least some indication of human trafficking or other neglect or abuse, and a sample set of 28 other UACs placed with sponsors who were not close relatives. Based on that investigation, the Subcommittee concludes that HHS's policies and procedures were inadequate to protect the children in the agency's care."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Towards Quantifying Programmable Logic Controller Resilience Against Intentional Exploits
From the thesis abstract: "Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems control and monitor services for the nation's critical infrastructure. Recent cyber induced events (e.g., Stuxnet) provide an example of a targeted, covert cyber attack against a SCADA system that resulted in physical effects. Of particular note is how Stuxnet exploited the trust relationship between the human machine interface (HMI) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Current methods for validating system operating parameters rely on message exchange and network communications protocols, generally observed at the HMI. Although sufficient at the macro level, this method does not provide detection of malware that exhibits physical effects via covert manipulation of the PLC, as demonstrated by Stuxnet. In this research, an alternative method that leverages direct analysis of PLC input and output to derive the true state of SCADA end-devices is introduced. The behavioral input-output characteristics are modeled using Petri nets to derive metrics for quantifying resilient properties of systems against malicious exploits. The results yield metrics that are applicable towards quantifying resilience in PLCs and implementing real-time security solutions. These findings enable detecting programming changes that affect input and output relationships, identifying the degree of deviation from a baseline program, and minimizing performance losses against disruptive events."
Air Force Institute of Technology (U.S.)
Bushey, Henry W.
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United States Attorneys' Annual Statistical Reports [HSDL Holdings]
This Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) holdings list contains the Annual Statistical Reports from the United States Attorneys. The reports contain statistical tables displaying both national and district caseload data. These priorities represent just some of the many important areas of criminal prosecution and civil litigation handled by the United States Attorneys in a given year.
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys
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H. Rept. 115-505:
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 3548) to make certain improvements to the security of the international borders of the United States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-454: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 3359, December 11, 2017
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 3359) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-569: End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 2219, February 23, 2018
"The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2219) to increase the role of the financial industry in combating human trafficking, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-569: End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 2219, February 20, 2018
"The Committee on Financial Services, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2219) to increase the role of the financial industry in combating human trafficking, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-603: Enhancing DHS' Fusion Center Technical Assistance Program Act, Report to Accompany H.R. 5099, March 19, 2018
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 5099) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish in the Department of Homeland Security a fusion center technical assistance program, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-605: Air Cargo Security Improvement Act of 2018, Report to Accompany H.R. 4176, March 19, 2018
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4176) to strengthen air cargo security, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-495: Securing American Non-Profit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 1486, January 9, 2018
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1486) to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide funding to secure non-profit facilities from terrorist attacks, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-497: Global Aviation System Security Reform Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 4559, January 9, 2018
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4559) to conduct a global aviation security review, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-494: Terrorist Screening and Targeting Review Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 4553, January 9, 2018
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4553) to require a review of the authorization, funding, management, and operation of the National Targeting Center and the Terrorist Screening Center, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-428: Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017, Report to Accompany H.R. 2228, November 28, 2017
"The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2228) to provide support for law enforcement agency efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of law enforcement officers, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-418: Disaster Assistance Fairness and Accountability Act of 2017, Report, November 21, 2017
"The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 3176) to prohibit the Federal Emergency Management Agency from recouping certain assistance, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-367: Sanctioning Hizballah's Illicit Use of Civilians as Defenseless Shields Act, Report to Accompany H.R. 3342, Including Cost Estimate of the Congressional Budget Office, October 24, 2017
"The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 3342) to impose sanctions on foreign persons that are responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights by reason of the use by Hizballah of civilians as human shields, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-308: Cuban Airport Security Act of 2017, Report Together with Additional Views to Accompany H.R. 3328, September 13, 2017
"The Committee on Homeland Security, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 3328) to require a study regarding security measures and equipment at Cuba's airports, require the standardization of Federal Air Marshal Service agreements, require efforts to raise international aviation security standards, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass."
United States. Government Publishing Office
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H. Rept. 115-307: Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 3697) to Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with Respect to Aliens Associated with Criminal Gangs, and for Other Purposes, and Providing for Proceedings During the Period from September 15, 2017, Through September 22, 2017, Report to Accompany H. Res. 513, September 12, 2017
"The resolution provides for consideration of H.R. 3697, the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, under a closed rule. The resolution provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The resolution provides that the amendment printed in this report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. The resolution waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended. The resolution provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions."
United States. Government Publishing Office
