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State and Local Governmental Impacts of the Homeland Security Act

come full circle to represent three of the most pressing issues critics contend reflect a botched attempt toward better security a...

Homeland Security: Adequate Facility Security?

within the United States, reduce Americas vulnerability to terrorism and minimize the damage and recover from any terrorist attack...

Homeland Security Personal Response

are occasionally updated, which means the activist is still under secret surveillance. Considering the culture of fear in which Am...

Defense Offered by the OHS

In addition to duties of incident management, public affairs, and ensuring continuity at all levels of government, the OHS was ent...

New Mexico's Senator John Arthur Smith and Representative Antonio Lujan

New Mexico State Legislatures web site as real estate appraiser. He resides at an unspecified address in Deming and can be reache...

Strategy of President George W. Bush's Department of Homeland Security

for local governments to remain focused upon the Acts inherently positive elements that help fortify funding for "the research and...

Department Of Homeland Security And Intelligence

catalyst for creating this new agency was the attack on America in September 2001. The purpose was to coordinate the information f...

The Homeland Security Act and Its Effectiveness

a truly positive impact can be measured. Such an analysis is sorely needed as the United States currently operates several hundred...

Homeland Security and the Unintended Consequences of their Polices and Practices

Any official policy or practice will have both intended and unintended consequences. This paper looks at some of the ways in which...

DEFENSE ACTS TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES

U.S. governments ability to examine terrorism financing and money laundering as well as allowing the government to closely examine...

Terrorism Preparedness, Travis County, Texas

Balcones Escarpment, with the land to the west being more arid than the country to the east; the vegetation varies accordingly, ra...

Safeguards and Penalties for Improper Use of Data and U.S. Law

to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...

Financing Services Mandated by the Federal Government

Many services are funded directly from local money, others are a combination of local and state money, and still others have fundi...

Labor Strikes and the Workplace Fairness Act

(http://www.ilafl-cio.org/BKCB .HTM). The "Workplace Fairness Act," recently renamed the "Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act" i...

Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Homeland Security

vast that the administration of the agency is of some concern. Because of the "urgency and novelty of the homeland security chall...

National Security - Categories of Threat

event of a terrorist incident, and also establish networks through which important information can be quickly shared and relayed, ...

Impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on Local Authorities

for Local Authorities 14 3.3 Administrative Burden 16 3.3.1 The Initial Applications 16 3.4 The Ongoing Burden and Financial Impac...

2001's Patriot Act and Homeland Security

Homeland Security. In relationship to the Patriot Act there is a great deal of controversy for many people feel it is a clear in...

Impacts to Law Enforcement

security. Others, however, condemn the Act because of its impact to American civil rights. Along with that condemnation has been...

Patriot Act and New Department

The Department of Homeland Security was signed into law in 2002, a year after the 9/11 attacks on America. Prior to that, the Patr...

Department Of Homeland Security

others (United States Department of Homeland Security, April, 2008). The five goals of the Department of Homeland Security are: ...

U.S. Failed Policy of Torture Tactics and Techniques on Suspected Terrorists

the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity (Bufacc...

The Potential Clash of Alignment of Civil Liberties and Security Controls

and the rights of privacy prevented a more proactive actions being taken to find these threats. This is a core element of the argu...

Governance of Municipalities

are areas around a city that are not incorporated into that municipality. Each state has its own criteria for an area to be design...

Federal and State Government Roles

This 20 page paper gives an overview of how government branches influence public policy, and how outside groups influence local ad...

Social Security System and Its Impacts

to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

Is Homeland Security an Effective Security Guard or an Example of 'Big Brother'?

obstacles, which suggests that this department is, at best, a "work in progress" (Lehrer, 2004, p. 71). The various bureaus that c...

U.S. Homeland Security and Technology That is Becoming Obsolete

of the World Trade Center and the subsequent attack on the Pentagon itself, numerous government officials have come to more fully ...

System of Criminal Justice and Impact of Homeland Security

availability mentioned above, every part of the criminal justice system is or has been affected in some way by the threat of domes...