Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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School officials said automatic calls about the situation went out to the children's emergency contact phone numbers but some parents missed the message.
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FEMA grants for uninsured losses include $7.3 million to 1,149 households in the St. Louis area.
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Ken Trump, president of the National School Safety and Security Services, says the research he's done points to an escalation in school violence – driven by technology.
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The equipment will help protect personnel as they provide emergency care to victims during an active shooter incident.
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President Obama’s proposed budget, released this week, calls on legislators to allow the Forest Service to use disaster funds from FEMA to pay its firefighting tab.
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The federal government called for commuter and freight train systems to add an extensive web of safeguards by 2018, but SunRail and a few others got permission for a two-year delay.
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CryptoBin, which allegedly posted federal employees' private information, is now only accessible through its numeric address.
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Radio failures have exacerbated problems with the county's emergency dispatch system, a relatively new regional effort that call-takers and dispatchers have struggled to master.
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A flood of once-in-a-century proportion inundated homes from Nile to Toppenish, first sending residents scrambling for sandbags and later raising questions about how best to prepare for future floods.
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The Obama administration outlined the need for an increased emphasis on cybersecurity given rising threat levels and a need to adapt to the rapidly changing environment.
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Nearly five years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and restoration projects are in full swing.
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Community critics have pushed back, arguing the pilot projects train a damaging spotlight on Muslim communities and mainly seek to keep tabs on them.
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'There’s a mismatch in what people conclude and what they say because of the perception of what the threat is.'
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Snowpacks melted rapidly. River waters, with nowhere else to go, swelled higher than anyone had seen in at least half a century.
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'We want people to understand that this can happen where they work. This can happen where they live.'
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The Homeland Security Simulation Center offers realistic training on disaster preparedness and response through a virtual reality platform.
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The technology exists, but why isn’t it being deployed?
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The terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris have prompted tech upgrades, including software provided as an application that public safety officials can use to send video, text and photos from their mobile phones.
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