Download or read book Faded Colors written by Naval Postgraduate School and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the Homeland Security Advisory System and the associated problems, looks at comparable international systems, and presents an alternative recommendation to provide timely and informative warnings of terrorist threats, and restores credibility by merging HSAS with the already existing DoD force protection conditions. After the events of 9/11, Homeland Security Presidential Directive-3 (HSPD-3) established the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) to provide a comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to federal, state, and local authorities and the American people. Under HSAS, threat levels were raised or lowered 16 times, but never below Threat Level Yellow (Elevated Condition). HSAS should have been straightforward and easy to understand. What evolved was confusion over alerts, lack of specific threat information, concerns over costs to institute and maintain protective measures, and questions regarding what was expected of citizens. Government agencies, the private sector, and the general population became immune with the threat level remaining at or above Yellow. HSAS was woefully misunderstood not just by the general population, but also within federal, state, and local governments. Ridiculed by comedians, HSAS gradually began to disappear, to the point where it was necessary to search to find the current threat level, whereas it had once been prominently posted.
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), established on March 12, 2002, is a color-coded terrorist threat warning system administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The system, which federal departments and agencies are required to implement and use, provides recommended protective measures for federal departments and agencies to prevent, prepare for, mitigate against, and respond to terrorist attacks. DHS disseminates HSAS terrorist threat warnings to federal departments, state and local agencies, the public, and private-sector entities. This dissemination of warnings is conducted through multiple communication systems and public announcements. HSAS has five threat levels: low, guarded, elevated, high, and severe. From March 2002 to the present, the HSAS threat level has been no lower than elevated, and has been raised to high six times. The first time it was raised to high was on September 10, 2002, due to the fear of terrorist attacks on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The most recent time it was raised to high was on August 1, 2004, due to intelligence regarding possible terrorist attacks on financial institutions in New York City, Washington, DC, and Newark, New Jersey. On March 16, 2004, the House of Representative's Committee on Government Reform's Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations held a hearing on the HSAS, its threat codes, and public response to it. This hearing focused on the information DHS issued the public the six times the HSAS threat level was raised from "yellow" to "orange." While the need for terrorist threat warnings seems to be widely acknowledged, there are numerous issues associated with HSAS and its effects on states, localities, the public, and the private sector.
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System preliminary observations regarding threat level increases from yellow to orange written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Homeland Security Advisory System written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System written by United States. Homeland Security Advisory Council and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the view of the Task Force, a national threat warning system for terrorist attacks is as central now as it was when today's system was established in 2002. Further, that warning system should remain dedicated to threats from terrorism and not be combined with other national warning systems for weather, natural disasters, infectious disease and so forth. Though the Task Force offers suggestions to reform the current system, the members unanimously share the Secretary's view that maintaining the nation's vigilance is the key to protecting against terrorism.
Download or read book Homeland Security written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System Task Force Report and Recommendations written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains the results and recommendations from the Homeland Security Council's review of the Homeland Security Advisory System, which explored the effectiveness of the color-coded national threat level regarding the risk of terrorist attacks in the United States. The report offers suggestions to improve the current system but also concludes that the advisory system in its current form is integral to counterterrorism efforts in the United States.
Download or read book Homeland Security communication protocols and risk communication principles can assist in refining the Advisory System report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Homeland Security Advisory System written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeland Security Advisory System: hearing before the Select Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, February 4, 2004.
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System Possible Issues for Congressional Oversight written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS), established on March 12, 2002, is a color coded terrorist threat warning system administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The system, which federal departments and agencies are required to implement and use, provides recommended protective measures for federal departments and agencies to prevent, prepare for, mitigate against, and respond to terrorist attacks. DHS disseminates HSAS terrorist threat warnings to federal departments, state and local agencies, the public, and private sector entities. This dissemination of warnings is conducted through multiple communication systems and public announcements. While the need for terrorist threat warnings seems to be widely acknowledged, there are numerous issues associated with HSAS and its effects on states, localities, the public, and the private sector. These issues include the following: * vagueness of warnings; * lack of specific protective measures for state and local governments, the public, and the private sector; * dissemination of warnings to states, localities, the public, and the private sector; * coordination of HSAS with other federal warning systems; and, * cost of threat level changes. This report will be updated as congressional or executive actions warrant.
Download or read book Introduction to Homeland Security written by Jane Bullock and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive account of past and current homeland security reorganization and practices, policies and programs in relation to government restructuring.
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System written by Shawn Reese and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yearbook of Immigration Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeland Security written by Carla Mooney and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Guards The Shore Lines And Combats Drug Dealers? The U.S. Coast Guard! Integrates Text Features Such As Maps And Timelines.
Download or read book Gao 04 453r Homeland Security Advisory System written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-04-453R Homeland Security Advisory System: Preliminary Observations Regarding Threat Level Increases from Yellow to Orange
Download or read book Homeland Security Advisory System written by Martin E. Ryczek and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeland Security Advisory System was conceived in 2003. Within seven years, the system has become marginalized, even though the country continues to be at war with the forces of terrorism. The reason for this is that the system as designed does not allow for the successful crafting of a complete warning message. A warning message needs to be specific enough to allow the warning recipient to make the appropriate linkages between the warning message and the physical and social manifestations of the threat. This linkage allows the recipient to form his own unique risk reality. Once that is formed, the recipient may be motivated to take appropriate precautions to counter the threat. A warning message that does not allow for the formation of a risk reality can never be effective because the recipient will fail to internalize the risk and thus fail to take the appropriate action to counter the threat.
