The White House Homeland Security Office has proposed a more specific system to alert the nation about potential terrorist attack. (Washington Report).(Brief Article)

Public Works, May, 2002

The Justice Department will maintain the Homeland Security Advisory System. Justice and the Office of Homeland Security would determine if a threat was credible, corroborated, specific, imminent, and grave.

The alert system is color-coded to correspond to the security threat. Green indicates a "low level" of risk only requiring that ongoing protective measures be updated. Blue, yellow, and orange represent sequentially higher risks that require additional actions.

A red alert would indicate a "severe" threat. Under red conditions, the Department of Justice may direct the closure of public and government facilities and increase or redirect personnel to address critical emergency needs.

Karen Anderson, president of the National League of Cities...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.