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safeguarding homeland security: Governors and Mayors Speak-Out

By Erwin Blackstone, Simon Hakim, Editors

Safeguarding Homeland Security on Springer

About this book

This book brings together the technological and managerial innovations suggested and applied by the nation’s leading governors and mayor in their own words. It includes models for public-private partnerships to improve preparation for, response and recovery from major natural disasters and terrorist attacks. These leaders in innovation point out how the 9/11 communication problems that contributed to the catastrophe have been addressed, including the use of volunteer agencies and volunteers to supplement governmental efforts, which is a recurring theme of the book. The book makes specific recommendations of services usually provided by public emergency agencies that are private in nature and could be shed by government while often being provided by the private sector. The book further suggests public services that are under the responsibility of governments but could be delivered more efficiently by contracting them out under competitive conditions and highlights incentives for greater involvement of the private sector in the delivery of emergency services.

Table of Contents

1 The Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security . . . . . . . 1
Simon Hakim and Erwin A. Blackstone

2 Creating the Boston Medical Reserve Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Thomas M. Menino

3 The Hierarchy of Emergency Preparedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Rob Drake

4 Border Security and State Safety and Security:
Addressing Common Agendas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
James Jay Carafano

5 Lessons Learned from the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane
Season: How This Highly Active Year Helped Jacksonville,
Florida, Build a Better Emergency Response System . . . . . . . 53
John Peyton

6 Disaster Management: Privatization as a Viable Alternative© . . 61
Alan Kirschenbaum

7 Caring for the Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and Rita . . . . 73
Bill White

8 Sheltering and Evacuating from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita . . 81
Henry Garrett

9 Local Government Contingency Planning for Public
Security and Public Safety – Innovative and Remedial Efforts . . 87
David G. Wallace

10 Technological and Regional Cooperation Strategies:
Securing the City and Port of Oakland, California . . . . . . . . . 99
Ronald V. Dellums, Yolanda Burrell, and Michael O’Brien

11 Innovative Anti-terror Information Sharing: Maryland’s
Federal, State, and Local Partnership Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Robert L. Ehrlich

12 Public Safety and Homeland Security Solutions:
An Evolution of Technology and Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Edward G. Rendell

13 Utilizing Technology Within the Delaware Information
and Analysis Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Ruth Ann Minner

14 From Curiosity to Collaboration: Leveraging Technology
to Improve Situational Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Curt Pringle

15 How a Midwestern “Digital City” Serves and Protects the Public . 177
Frank A. Pasquale

16 Hurricanes and Modern Communications Infrastructure . . . . . 185
Barry H. Axelrod and James V. Mudd

17 The First Line of Defense: Cities Using Technology in
Homeland Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
David N. Cicilline

18 Full Interoperability for All South Dakota Public Safety . . . . . 197
M. Michael Rounds and Otto Doll

19 Evolutionary Planning for the Technology Revolution . . . . . . . 207
Bill Baarsma

20 History of Regional Unified and Integrated Public Safety
and Public Service Communication and Transportation Systems . 217
Will Wynn

21 Interoperability in the City of Tampa: A Partnership
with the Department of Homeland Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Pam Iorio

22 Capital Connections: Washington’s Public Safety
Communications Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Anthony A. Williams

23 Information, Leadership and Decisiveness,
All in One Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Richard M. Daley

24 Beyond an Information Technology Approach to
Continuity of Operations: The Commonwealth of Virginia Story . 261
Timothy Kaine

25 The Soft Stuff is Still the Hard Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Albert Morales and Todd S. Ramsey
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

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