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Review the assigned pages in Chapter 11 of your course text, Introduction to Homeland Security. Reflect on the definition and importance of risk and crisis communications and the role of media. In addition, reflect on the importance of public information from a national perspective.
Review Chapters 3 and 8 of the online article, "A Governor's Guide to Homeland Security." Reflect on the importance of and recommendations for improving risk and crisis communications and public information from the perspective of states.
Review the article, "Do You Know Where Your Information is in the Homeland Security Era?" Focus on the issues and challenges related to the use of information sharing, intelligence, biometrics, and data mining during heightened national anxiety or emergency.
Using the Internet, research a hazard or terrorist event—historical or contemporary—that occurred in the United States in which information sharing among government agencies in homeland security efforts posed challenges. Please select an event other than the 9/11 attacks or Hurricane Katrina.
Think about why information sharing between and among government agencies in the example you researched posed challenges.
Identify at least one implication of the lack of information sharing in such cases.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post a brief description of a hazard or a terrorist event in which information sharing between and among government agencies regarding their homeland security efforts posed several challenges. Explain why. Then explain at least one implication of the lack of information sharing in such cases. Be specific.
Please use the attached file for the learning resources.