Safeguarding Homeland Security

1. Front Matter

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2. The Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security

   • Simon Hakim, Erwin A. Blackstone

   Pages 1-21

3. Creating the Boston Medical Reserve Corps

   • Thomas M. Menino

   Pages 23-30

4. The Hierarchy of Emergency Preparedness

   • Rob Drake

   Pages 31-40

5. Border Security and State Safety and Security: Addressing Common Agendas

   • James Jay Carafano

   Pages 41-52

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

   • John Peyton

   Pages 53-60

7. Disaster Management: Privatization as a Viable Alternative©

   • Alan Kirschenbaum

   Pages 61-71

8. Caring for the Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and Rita

   • Bill White

   Pages 73-79

9. Sheltering and Evacuating from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

   • Henry Garrett

   Pages 81-86

10. Local Government Contingency Planning for Public Security and Public Safety – Innovative and Remedial Efforts

    • David G. Wallace

    Pages 87-98

11. Technological and Regional Cooperation Strategies: Securing the City and Port of Oakland, California

    • Ronald V. Dellums, Yolanda Burrell, Michael O’Brien

    Pages 99-116

12. Innovative Anti-terror Information Sharing: Maryland’s Federal, State, and Local Partnership Model

    • Robert L. Ehrlich

    Pages 117-129

13. Public Safety and Homeland Security Solutions: An Evolution of Technology and Policy

    • Edward G. Rendell

    Pages 131-148

14. Utilizing Technology Within the Delaware Information and Analysis Center

    • Ruth Ann Minner

    Pages 149-157

15. From Curiosity to Collaboration: Leveraging Technology to Improve Situational Awareness

    • Curt Pringle

    Pages 159-176

16. How a Midwestern “Digital City” Serves and Protects the Public

    • Frank A. Pasquale

    Pages 177-184

17. Hurricanes and Modern Communications Infrastructure

    • Barry H. Axelrod, James V. Mudd

    Pages 185-189

18. The First Line of Defense: Cities Using Technology in Homeland Defense

    • David N. Cicilline

    Pages 191-196

19. Full Interoperability for All South Dakota Public Safety

    • M. Michael Rounds, Otto Doll

    Pages 197-205

20. Evolutionary Planning for the Technology Revolution

    • Bill Baarsma

    Pages 207-216

The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, and the natural disasters of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated the challenges that governments face in initial response and recovery efforts. This book details the important steps that governors and mayors have initiated to address the serious problems illustrated by these recent disasters. The innovative solutions include developing more reliable communications, creating public–private partnerships to supplement public emergency services, establishing fusion c- ters that interpret information, and creating joint operations centers to manage the response to the event. There are important lessons to be learned from the managerial and technological innovations that the governors and mayors describe in this book. As the Mayor of Philadelphia and now as the Governor of Pennsylvania, I have contributed to three books on best practices of state and local governments. I am pleased to participate in the efforts of the Center for Competitive Government of the Fox School at Temple University to address the important issues faced by governments. This book makes an important contribution to the public discussion on the public and private sectors’ role in homeland security. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell vii Acknowledgement The editors would like to acknowledge Dr. M. Moshe Porat, Dean of the Fox School at Temple where the Center for Competitive Government is located. His strong c- tribution and support for the Mayors’ Summits is most appreciated. Many chapters for our books including this one emanated from these Summits.

• 9/11
• Change
• EMS
• Emergency preparedness
• Emergency response
• Innovation
• Leadership
• Local government
• Mayor
• Natural disaster
• Public-private partnerships
• Terrorism
• information technology
• planning
• strategy

• Dept. Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

  Simon Hakim

• Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

  Erwin A. Blackstone

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