Homeland Security’s CTO Says Katrina Was A ‘Failure’ Of Incident Response: “Telecommunications problems, power outages, and slowness to update the department Web site contributed to delays getting aid to people who needed it, says Lee Holcomb, CTO of the Department of Homeland Security.”
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Daily Archives: September 8, 2005
Federal Judiciary Emergency Special Sessions Act of 2005
House Unanimously Approves Hurricane Katrina Emergency Courts Legislation (H.R. 3650) – “Bill authorizes federal courts to conduct business outside of geographic domains during emergency.” This bill was signed by the President on September 9. 2005. Continue Reading
Katrina Causes Widespread Damage to Weather Forecasting
Federal Computer Week reported that the government’s weather forecasting capabilities in the areas impacted by Katrina have been significantly impaired due to the severe damage sustained to the majority of its partner, WeatherBug Network’s, facilities. Related links: Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina Future of Free Access to Net Weather Data In… Continue Reading
FEMA Blocks Journalists From Photographing Katrina’s Victims
Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead Related links Continue Reading
Net Founder Hired By Google
Google press release: Vint Cerf, a Founding Father of the Internet, Joins Google as Chief Internet Evangelist Interview: Cerf Discusses His Jump To Google Cerf’s Up for Google – Its hiring of Net luminary Vint Cerf signals it may be plotting a stronger push into VoIP and other Web-based telecommunications. Continue Reading
Impartial Congressional Review of Katrina Questioned
From the Hill.com: “Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) yesterday announced that they are setting up a bipartisan, bicameral committee to review the governments response to Hurricane Katrina, despite the strong reservations or outright opposition from several GOP lawmakers.” From Sen. Harry Reid’s floor statement today: “An investigation of… Continue Reading
Free Access to News and Recovery Coverage From LexisNexis
From LexisNexis: “As a service to anyone who needs ready and free access to breaking and archived news on Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath, LexisNexis has expanded its free online news site (LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News) to include in-depth coverage of all aspects of this event and ongoing remediation efforts. Visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/ to… Continue Reading
