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Disaster Accountability Project on the National Response Framework

by Jon on March 20, 2008

in Exercises

Excerpts from The Disaster Accountability Project’s comments on the National Response Framework:• “The NRF inadequately considers the needs of non-English speakers who may be foreign visitors or immigrants… Make the draft NRF readily available in Spanish and other languages spoken by a substantial portion of the population”• “Make civil service positions less vulnerable to political [...]

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New York City receives larger DHS grant for subway security

by Jon on March 6, 2008

in underground systems

Jen Chung at Gothamist and Al Baker of the Times have good coverage of the new, much-increased Department of Homeland Security grant to provide security for New York City subways, including the 16 underwater tunnels that link the boroughs to each other, and to the mainland (the Bronx, of course, is actually on the mainland). [...]

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Unusual occurrence – DHS blog permits gently critical comment

by Jonathan Soroko on October 2, 2007

in Transparency

I don’t understand it.But – Michael Chertoff has started a blog. And, after a recent  post, David W. Stephenson, of Stephenson Strategies, made a comment that actually made it through DHS screening.I’m not sure he could have gotten the comment onto a commercial flight, though, unless it was in checked luggage.Check out Mirabile dictu! My [...]

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