This book details the important steps that governors and mayors have initiated to address the serious problems illustrated by these recent disasters. This book makes an important contribution to the public discussion on the public and private sectors’ role in homeland security.

The Role of the Private Sector in Homeland Security.- Creating the Boston Medical Reserve Corps.- The Hierarchy of Emergency Preparedness.- Border Security and State Safety and Security: Addressing Common Agendas.- Lessons Learned from the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season: How This Highly Active Year Helped Jacksonville, Florida, Build a Better Emergency Response System.- Disaster Management: Privatization as a Viable Alternative©.- Caring for the Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and Rita.- Sheltering and Evacuating from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.- Local Government Contingency Planning for Public Security and Public Safety – Innovative and Remedial Efforts.- Technological and Regional Cooperation Strategies: Securing the City and Port of Oakland, California.- Innovative Anti-terror Information Sharing: Maryland’s Federal, State, and Local Partnership Model.- Public Safety and Homeland Security Solutions: An Evolution of Technology and Policy.- Utilizing Technology Within the Delaware Information and Analysis Center.- From Curiosity to Collaboration: Leveraging Technology to Improve Situational Awareness.- How a Midwestern “Digital City” Serves and Protects the Public.- Hurricanes and Modern Communications Infrastructure.- The First Line of Defense: Cities Using Technology in Homeland Defense.- Full Interoperability for All South Dakota Public Safety.- Evolutionary Planning for the Technology Revolution.- History of Regional Unified and Integrated Public Safety and Public Service Communication and Transportation Systems.- Interoperability in the City of Tampa: A Partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.- Capital Connections: Washington’s Public Safety Communications Suite.- Information, Leadership and Decisiveness, All in One Room.- Beyond anInformation Technology Approach to Continuity of Operations: The Commonwealth of Virginia Story.- The Soft Stuff is Still the Hard Stuff.

This book brings together the technological and managerial innovations suggested and applied by the nation’s leading governors and mayors in their own words. It includes models for public-private partnerships to improve preparation for, response and recovery from major natural disasters and terrorist attacks. These leaders in innovation point out how the 9/11 communication problems that contributed to the catastrophe have been addressed, including the use of volunteer agencies and volunteers to supplement governmental efforts, which is a recurring theme of the book. The book makes specific recommendations of services usually provided by public emergency agencies that are private in nature and could be shed by government while often being provided by the private sector. The book further suggests public services that are under the responsibility of governments but could be delivered more efficiently by contracting them out under competitive conditions and highlights incentives for greater involvement of the private sector in the delivery of emergency services.

Includes anecdotal contributions from prominent state governors including Robert Ehrlich (Maryland) and Tim Kaine (Virginia), city mayors including Thomas Menino (Boston), Richard Daley (Chicago) and Bill White (Houston), and international experts Contains luminary strategies that can be adopted by local and regional governments the world over Address the role of public-private partnerships in homeland security with regard to policing, technological and managerial innovation, and emergency response to terrorism or natural disasters Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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