SECURITY/Coast Guard offers guidelines for port security
By: David Cruz, senior port planner for Long Beach, Calif.-based Moffatt & Nichol Engineers
The events of Sept. 11 have shifted the focus of seaport security. Whereas port officials once were mainly concerned with curtailing thefts, drug trafficking...
City adds personal alarms to its domestic violence arsenal
By: American City & County Staff
In October, the New Haven (Conn.) Department of Police Services (DPS) implemented a program in which victims of domestic abuse are issued devices that,...
EMERGENCY RESPONSE/Reverse 911 system has broad application
By: Janet Ward
The Orange County (Fla.) Sheriff's Department was looking for a system that would help it track missing children and issue hurricane evacuation notices....
EMERGENCY RESPONSE/Center prepared for multiple disasters
By: AMERICAN CITY & COUNTY STAFF
Oakland, Calif., has become well acquainted with natural disasters over the past 10 years. The city felt the effects of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake...
DISASTER MANAGEMENT/Fort Worth manages tornado according to plan
By: Randy Corbin
April 4 started like a normal day in Texas. By nightfall, however, as a tornado rolled into downtown Fort Worth, the once-calm land turned into a disaster...
County puts emergency evacuation on the map
With a nuclear power generation facility and several chemical plants in its jurisdiction, Linn County, Iowa, is a likely location for a hazardous materials...
