Reports

Public Health Emergency Exercise Toolkit: Planning, Designing, Conducting, and Evaluating Local Public Health Emergency Exercises

This toolkit is intended to guide local public health agency staff in developing, implementing, & evaluating emergency drills and exercises; and handling larger, multiagency emergency exercise events.

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Government Accountability Office - Border Security: Continued Weaknesses in Screening Entrants into the United States

On several occasions, GAO agents were able to enter the United States from Canada or Mexico either without showing any identification or showing counterfeit identification.

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Pandemic Flu School Action Kit from Contra Costa Health Services

This planning kit includes school responses, planning checklists, guidelines to stop the spread of germs, key phone numbers and websites.

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GAO - TSA Oversight of Checked Baggage Screening Procedures Could Be Strengthened

This report addresses (1) how TSA prioritized the use of checked baggage screening procedures,(2) how TSA reported use of the procedures and (3) what steps TSA took to reduce airports' need for alternative screening.

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NACCHO's Local Health Department Guide to Pandemic Influenza

This guide is intended for use by local health departments as part of a multi-sector effort to coordinate planning and response to a pandemic influenza outbreak.

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OSHA Announces That the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Along With the FBI, Has Launched a New "Protect Your Workplace Campaign"

The program is designed for all businesses, as well as government agencies, and features a series of four posters that focus on such issues as robberies and break-ins, computer intrusions and corporate espionage, and identity theft.

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) - Investigators Transported Radioactive Sources Across Our Nation's Borders at Two Locations

GAO testimony discloses the results of undercover tests made by its investigators to determine whether monitors at U.S. ports of entry detect radioactive sources in vehicles attempting to enter the United States.

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United States and Canada Announce Results of Operation Frozen Timber, a Multi-Agency Probe Targeting Cross-Border Aerial Drug Smuggling

During the course of Operation Frozen Timber, U.S. and Canadian enforcement teams intercepted more than 17 drug loads, including one shipment in February 2005 involving five suitcases packed with 149 kilograms of cocaine.

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) - DHS is Addressing Security at Chemical Facilities, but Additional Authority is Needed

DHS is developing a Chemical Sector-Specific Plan, which is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2006. In addition, DHS has taken a number of other actions to protect the nation's chemical sector from terrorist attacks.

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International Association of Chiefs of Police Capitol Report

Follow up information on the FY 2007 Homeland Security Bill, Chemical Plant Security Bill, and Justice Assistance Grant program.

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