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U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the launch of DisasterRecoveryWorkingGroup.gov—a new interagency website that will allow federal disaster recovery officials to solicit comments from state, local and tribal partners and the public. According to the press release:
The new website will be used by the federal [...]

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On October 4th, it will be 10/4 and out for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) interesting online experiment, A National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. The third and last round began this week and will run through Sunday.
The Dialogue tool was developed by DHS with the National Academy of Public Administration to help [...]

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In a speech marking the end of National Preparedness Month, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today asked Americans “to raise your hand and ask ‘What’s our plan’” at their schools, workplaces, houses of worship, social organizations, and homes.
The full speech text has not yet been released but in the Department’s “Leadership Blog,” Napolitano summarized its contents:
“Today, [...]

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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be delivering a major speech on preparedness at 2:15 ET at the Red Cross in Washington, D.C. to mark the end of National Preparedness Month.
In the speech, she will make a request that citizens: Stand up at school, or at work, or at home, and ask, “What’s our plan?” [...]

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Speaking to a workshop on crisis communications yesterday, DHS Secretary Napolitano said both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media “can and need to” continue to address the accuracy of rumors and conspiracy theories on homeland security issues such as H1N1 and terrorism. In her remarks, she also outlined some other news/information challenges faced by the media as [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Kathy Cloninger today unveiled a Girl Scout preparedness patch-designed to engage Girl Scouts and their families in personal preparedness for all emergencies-and announced a new affiliation between DHS Citizen Corps and the Girl Scouts to advance community preparedness nationwide. ”As [...]

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The second of three online Dialogues on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review is now open for business. The Dialogues are an innovative web-based outreach tool created by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Academy of Public Administration to help solicit stakeholder input on the “Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR). The QHSR is a congressionally-mandated process which [...]

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There is another former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary with a book coming out on September 1st.
Just as news was hitting the web (and my Blackberry) about Tom Ridge’s blockbuster charges on political pressure to raise the color terror alert in his new book “The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege … And [...]

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Just a reminder that you have until the end of Sunday to participate in the initial round of the “Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review.” As discussed in a post earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now conducting the “Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR),” which will help guide the [...]

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To kick off the launch of the “National Dialogue On The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held a “Blogger Roundtable” yesterday at the agency’s headquarters featuring Assistant Secretary For Policy David Heyman.
DHS is conducting the first-ever “Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR),” a Congressionally-mandated strategic review which aims to help guide the Department [...]

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