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Public Safety

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S&T, USFA, and FDNY Collaborate on Lithium-Ion Battery Risks at Public Safety Workshop

DHS S&T, in collaboration with the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) and Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), hosted a comprehensive two-day workshop titled Charging Forward: Public Safety in Community Electrification. 

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Federal Campus Safety Resources

The federal government maintains a broad range of campus safety resources that you can draw on based on your needs. This fact sheet provides additional information on these resources and includes email addresses to request any services or information you might require.

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First Amendment Activity at Academic Institutions

To ensure peaceful protests and safe conduct on educational campuses during First Amendment-protected activities, DHS recommends institution leadership take proactive steps to prepare the campus ecosystem, communicate policies and procedures, and respond by taking both a whole-of-community, human centric approach and enforcing campus policies, as necessary.

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Your Safety Our Priority

FPS has developed a series of personal safety and security awareness messages as part of an ongoing commitment to enable employees, customers, stakeholders, and the public to keep safe— Your Safety, Our Priority. 

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Get Back Up and Continue On

S&T Community and Infrastructure Resilience lead Ron Langhelm joins host Dee Saini to chat about the work S&T is doing to ensure communities are prepared for natural and manmade disasters.

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Low-Head Dam Alerting for Rescuer Safety Fact Sheet

DHS S&T will provide a readily accessible toolset to help First Responders identify low-head dam (LHD) hazards and promulgate potential alerting and life-saving information. This effort will deliver freely accessible, user-friendly toolboxes to help investigate public safety at low-head dams, enable modelers to consider site-specific conditions and alerts of potential hazards, and deliver an updated version of the national LHD inventory, estimated at over 13,500 sites.

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Feature Article: S&T Deploys DETER at the Indy 500

See how S&T joined forces with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to deploy a new vehicle barrier at this year’s race.

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DHS-Supported Initiative by HSOAC, CISA, and NTAC

As part of a larger effort with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Infrastructure Security Division’s School Safety Task Force and the U.S. Secret Service’s (USSS) National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) worked to move the needle to enhance safety protocols within kindergarten through 12th-grade (K-12) educational settings.  Specifically, HSOAC was tasked to conduct exhaustive research involving K–12 stakeholders.

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Statement from Secretary Mayorkas on Record Three Million Screenings by TSA

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement following yesterday’s record three million passenger screenings by the Transportation Security Administration.

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CWMD Provides CBRN Detection and Monitoring Support to the Indy 500

Assistant Secretary Mary Ellen Callahan, DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD), visited Indianapolis Motor Speedway to learn about the safety and security measures in preparation for the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500.