Dissemination Case Study

This may be because of legal requirements e.g. health and safety information where ensuring the Information of service users are kept protected; or in a hospital where Doctors need to talk about a patient who requires a certain treatment or diagnosis.

The city had learned from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and had done contingency planning in the event of another similar terrorist attack. It established a state of the art Emergency Operations Center. It was evident that training was provided to all departments and officials as to what the priority would be in the case of a disaster, which is public safety. The first thing that was done was to seal off the area to allow first responders to respond quickly and evacuate the public from the area. Even in the absence of communication with the Emergency Operations Center, department heads and key ranking personnel knew exactly what the priority was and acted accordingly. The city’s preparedness left little room for doubt as to who was in charge, with that being said, state and federal agencies were mainly in the role of supporting the city in the efforts of evacuating, rescue and recovery. The leadership provided by the mayor calmed the already shocked public and reassured them of their safety. “The three steps of crisis management are prevention, preparation and containment” (Starling, 2008, p.222). The city itself could not have done much about preventing the situation, but the city’s preparation was evident by their public administrator’s and employee’s quick decisive response. The containment was also accomplished by the city action of closing off the area and

Beginning in 2001 Intelligence about the impending nature of an attack was increasing, not only from US Intelligence sources but also from 11 other countries such as Britain, Israel, India, Egypt, Morocco and even a top Taliban commander from Afghanistan (Thompson.) Beginning in August warnings become coming in from everywhere, foreign governments, CIA and FBI sources and so on however, next to none of this information was shared between the many intelligence agencies. In April, NORAD launched a training scenario in which the pentagon was to be incapacitated by a hijacked airliner however the Joint Chiefs of Staff disregarded the scenario as “too unrealistic” (September 11 attacks advance-knowledge debate.) On august 19th the Israeli’s gave US intelligence personnel credible information including, the list of 19 suspected terrorist’s names and the fact that a large aircraft would be the primary weapon involved. The names were not shared by the CIA with other intelligence agencies (Robinson.)

This network needs to have good policies and procedures for information sharing to ensure all the aspects are taken into account at every moment.

While hijacked airplanes on 9/11 caused the most fatalities of any single terrorist incident, the majority of terrorist attacks are carried out by conventional explosives and secondary devices. This is a broad category that includes incendiary devices, pressure bombs, car bombs, and any other explosive device. These weapons are low cost, low tech, and easy to construct. Out of the five CBRNE categories, explosives are by far the most likely hazard to be encountered (FEMA,

When combating terrorist, intel is the key to preventing or mitigating the damage from an attack. Since the bombing of the USS Cole (DDG-67) in 12 October 2000 the US navy has taken force protection to a new heights. This led to more meticulous research being done on local activity on ports of interest. As a result, we now know who is operating in the area and their modus operandi. This allowed for a more accurate assessment of the threat level before a ship enters into a port. However, unlike larger organizations, the lone-wolf terrorist is particularly harder to track. In other words, it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This allows them to get much closer to their targets undetected, inflict more damage and most of all; it affords them the opportunity to escape prosecution for years. In the case study by Ramo ́Nspaaij (2010, p.867)it was noted that two terrorist, Theodore Kaczynski (U.S.) and Franz Fuchs (Austria
) were so successful at lone-wolf attacks that they were able to strike

The intelligence community knew that Osama bin Laden had threatened to “cut off the head of the serpent” (the US) and cause mass casualties; it also knew that Bin Laden was planning to do something with aircrafts. An FBI field office knew that several pilots were in training, but didn’t seem to piece it all together (Simonsen & Spindlove, 2013, Pg. 69) However, the past “Dots” lead to a buildup by internationalized terror fanatics from the Islamic world, with serious planning for perpetrating attacks against the U.S. The U.S. had no idea that the attackers were actually being flight trained in Florida and the U.S. were

As Director of Homeland Security my function is to pull together, evaluate, preserve and circulate data that will support local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, administration agencies, and private sector to identify, avert, thwarting while preparing for the response and recovery from hazards and threats of terrorist circumstances, as pursuant to O.R.C § 5502.03 (The Library of Congress, 2007). I’ve include information which I believe will help assist each department head present to better understand homeland security function and responsibility to ensure the security of our city. Also include is the legal basis for

As communities and public safety agencies prepare their communities to deal with possible terrorism, community policing models are effectively drawn upon for a better enforcement of preparedness. Efforts by federal and state governments are mindful of the production for events of the 1960 's Civil Defense but as a result of 9/11, there has been more action for cities and towns to develop response plans for any type of local terrorist incidents. The safety of the public is most important and falls into the hands of government agencies. Community policing encourages community input and involvement.

You may share the information with other employees as long it is to increase the information’s authorization

It is impossible for any organization to stay current on their homeland security preparedness efforts without including a plan for the future. Key questions to ask during this part of the assessment include: Who will be involved in the development of the organization’s homeland security planning? How will the organization’s homeland security efforts develop to meet newly emerging threats? Key areas that must be considered in an organization’s planning include: the needs of the customer, technological advancement to meet newly emerging threats, how to increase the organization’s strengths and diminish its weaknesses, and financial concerns such as budgeting for homeland security

Vulnerability assessments on terrorism were designed to establish any loopholes in a security system that are prone to harm or attack by a person who may have intentions to harm a particular location, an event or an individual. The main goal of terrorism vulnerability assessments is to establish the weaknesses of facilities across a variety of probable threats. Once such threats are assessed, physical and operational measures of improvement are put in place so as to make sure that such facilities are adequately protected. Such assessments can be administered to a vast range of facilities ranging from existing site management and new construction design over the life of service of such structures. This paper will delve into critical vulnerability assessment of three locations. The first location being Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden City, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and lastly Corriell Institute for Medical Research.

The property of hundreds of thousands of owners would be destroyed in the dropping of the bomb. Any insured property bore the interest of the company insuring it. The construction companies that would need to rebuild the city have an interest in the potential profits from the work. The environment and all of its plants and animals also have a natural interest in this issue as stakeholders.

Thomas Jefferson's "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" did not come into full fruition because the General Assembly rejected it before voting to spend $45,000 from the Literacy Fund on a school for the poor in each country. I think we have learned from some of the obstacles our fore fathers faced, because our fore fathers had to decide on certain laws, sought to preserve the principles of Liberty, and equality for which they had to fight for. I do see some similarities between the obstacles our fore fathers faced through what we face today, because we still fight for equality, as people, in our schools, basically anywhere you go, people are fighting for equality some way or

After reading the case, one continues to come up with new problems and issues along the way that are related to information technologies. The three main problems we encountered in this case are lack of IT knowledge, inappropriate planning, and ineffective and inefficient Resource Management. Each of these issues requires specific attention to fix the next problem and so forth. The solution to attack each individual problem or issue will be explained as follows.