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State of Delaware Homeland Security Advisory Council

(HSAC)

Minutes 09/19/12

0900-1100 Public Safety Building

Main Conference Room 303 Transportation Circle

Dover DE 19901

1. Welcome, Call to Order, and Room Introductions

The meeting was called to order by Secretary Lewis Schiliro at 0900 hours. He

informed everyone that the City of Wilmington’s new maritime boat presentation

ceremony was taking place this morning. Secretary Schiliro requested that Major

Monroe Hudson brief members on a success story from our “See Something – Say

Something” campaign relating to a recent shooting.

Attending today’s meeting were:

Council Members - Voting

Secretary Lewis D. Schiliro Department of Safety & Homeland Security - Chair Kurt Reuther, HSA Department of Safety & Homeland Security – Co-Chair Director Jamie Turner Delaware Emergency Management Agency Mayor Carleton Carey League of Local Governments (LLG) John Sadowski Department of Education Chief James Graybeal Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control Elayne Starkey, CTO Department of Technology & Information Gene Donaldson, TMC Mgr. Department of Transportation/TMC Warren Jones, Exec. Mgr. Delaware Volunteer Firefighters’ Association Ed Klima Emergency Services Coordinator, Dover Motorsports Inc. Joseph Aviola, Asst. Prof. Wilmington University, Chair Administrative Justice Program Brian McDonough AMTRAK Police & Security, SAT Coordinator (Non-Voting Awaiting Governor’s Appointment) Councilman George Smiley Delaware Association of County Governments (Non-Voting (Awaiting Governor’s Appointment)

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Designated Proxy - Voting

Major Monroe Hudson Delaware State Police, Special Operations Officer/Aviation Captain Brian Malloy Delaware National Guard Ex-Officio Federal Partners - Non-voting

Robert Prettyman U. S. Attorney’s Office – District of Delaware Assistant U. S. Attorney Ken Greeson, U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Protective Security Advisor Council Support – Non-voting

Captain Pete Sawyer, OIC Delaware Information & Analysis Center (DIAC)/ OIC Dee L. Rivard Department of Safety & Homeland Security Council Legal Staff – Non-voting

DAG Thomas Ellis Delaware Department of Justice – Civil Division

Alternates

J. Allen Metheny, Treasurer Delaware Volunteer Firemen’s Association – Non-Voting Dwayne Day, HS Planner Department of Transportation/TMC – Non-voting Joseph Wessels League of Local Governments (LLG) – Non-voting Additional Attendees– Non-voting Eric Chabrow, Exec. Editor GovInfoSecurity & InfoRiskToday 2. Approval of Minutes

Director Turner made a motion to approve the minutes as presented, which was

seconded by Warren Jones and unanimously approved by voting members of the

Council.

Kurt Reuther briefed everyone on his discussions with DAG Tom Ellis concerning the

Council’s executive sessions with these meetings subject to Delaware’s Open Meeting

Law. Kurt and Tom are working on a way to ensure compliance while still being able to

brief members on sensitive information. Kurt contact members in advance of the meeting

to advise them to keep their briefings at the least restrictive level in order to avoid having

to enter into executive session.

3. EXECUTIVE SESSION -: None

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4. PUBLIC SESSION – Agency Briefings & Recurring Business:

Director Jamie Turner briefed everyone on Delaware Emergency Management Agency activities

since our last meeting.

FY07 Grants were closed on June 30th with Delaware returning approximately $1,631.00

FY08 & FY09 Grants have approximately $160,000 outstanding for local subgrantee levels.

Jamie is planning to speak with Delaware’s Congressional staff on Thursday.

FY11 Funding was approved and Jamie is awaiting the FY12 award notice.

The Region 5 specific studies are due December 31 which requires Delaware to (2) Identify

& evaluate Delaware’s Emergency Operations Plan (submitted yesterday) (3) Analysis of

equipment and training purchased/provided with Homeland Security Funding both in-state

and out-of-state. (4) Submission of the State Preparedness Report by 12/31 (5) Submission

of the THIRA Report covering impact core capabilities and target capabilities that were

covered during the August meeting where 5 threats were identified: Homeland Security,

Cyber-Security, HazMat, Pandemic, and Coastal Flooding. (Expected completion is

sometime in mid-November.

Delaware completed their recent federal Radiological Emergency Plan (REP) Exercise

without any deficiencies noted.

DEMA staff supported the Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control

(DNREC) on an Energy related Tabletop Exercise on Response & Recovery, handled 9

federal disasters in the state with multiple appearances and staff support, and completed a

successful COOP exercise completely evacuating their building in 17 minutes and being up

and running at their COOP site within 21 minutes. Secretary Schiliro congratulated Director

Turner on his staff’s performance.

DEMA staff developed an electronic system to share information with New Jersey.

Captain Pete Sawyer briefed members on international, national, regional, and local security events

that occurred since our last meeting.

Intelligence communication notes an increase in homegrown violent extremist activity with 11

events occurring in 2012.

o February – D.C. Field Office – U. S. Capitol Plot

o March - Jewish School Shooting in Toulouse, France

o April - East Oakland University

o April - N. E. Ohio Anarchist Bridge Bombing Plot

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o May - Maine incident involving explosive materials & the Mother of Satan Compound

o July - Israeli Tourist Targeting Attacks which remains an ongoing threat

o July - Aurora, Colorado Theatre Shooting

o August - Denmark incident

o August – Active Shooter at Old Bridge New Jersey Mass Pathmark Store

o September – Chicago JTTF & FBI arrested an 18 –year-old subject for an attempted

car bomb plot outside a Chicago bar.

Homegrown extremists often do not always have a terrorist nexus. He advised everyone to

review last week’s Hometown Security Training Bulletin on Active Shooter prevention noting

that the Department of Safety & Homeland Security and DEMA websites have an Active

Shooter Prevention Video. Secretary Schiliro sent correspondence to all state department

Cabinet Secretaries recommending that they encourage every state employee to view this

video.

Captain Sawyer briefed members on the recent uprising provoked over the satirical style of

the Innocence of Muslims Film noting that 37 Embassy protests have occurred with an

additional 5 planned. While there were no indications of protests in Delaware our federal

partners are keeping a close eye on any threat against Jewish Communities. The Anti-

Defamation League is disappointed in rumors linking them to the film.

Captain Sawyer provided a briefing on Delaware’s See Something Say Something

Campaign. Bob Prettyman suggested trying to supplement our outreach to business and

ports on this important campaign. Citizen Corp provides great support with outreach

activities.

Kurt Reuther & Captain Sawyer met June 9 at Troop 2 with U. S. Attorney for community

outreach involving various agencies and both feel that outreach activities and partnerships

are very important. Kurt provided outreach with some of Delaware’s Banks last year and

plans to do it again this year. Kurt emphasized the importance of reporting suspicious activity

to Delaware’s Anti-Terrorism Tip Line by calling 1-800-FORCE-1-2 or for those without the

alphanumeric characters on their phones the number is 1-800-367-2312.

Secretary Schiliro was amazed at the level of hate that is still present 14 years later. He stated

that our first Community Outreach & Partnership Briefing was very successful informing everyone

that Kurt is working on our second Private Sector Threat Briefing.

Elayne Starkey provided a Department of Technology & Information (DTI) PowerPoint presentation

on Cyber Security. Additionally Elayne briefed members on cyber security issues statewide.

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Easy Pass DE was impacted by hacktivism.

October is National Cyber-Security Awareness Month.

DTI will host a Community Cyber Conference day-long event with the City of Wilmington and

Dover on February 6, 2013.

State and local staff are participating in a Cyber COOP Boot Camp sponsored by the

University of Texas, San Antonio.

Elayne hopes that members present recognize the significant achievement of their

information technology personnel who successfully completed the CISSP Boot Camp as this

certification is a highly coveted security certification.

Elayne briefed everyone on COOP and cyber security activities with State of Delaware

agencies, City of Dover, City of Wilmington, Delaware National Guard, and Dover Air Force

Base.

She provided the COOP Quarterly briefing noting completion of Tier 1 organizations that

completed the entire cycle by the end of last year. DelDOT and the DOC are still in

progress. Tier 2 Organizations are completed with Department of Health & Social Services

(DHSS), Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), Office of the State Financial

Manager (OSFM), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Department of Finance (DOF),

and the Department of State (DOS) still in process.

Delaware received the 2012 National Cyber-Security Innovation Award for their Certification

Program for State Information Security Officers (ISOs).

Ed Klima briefed everyone on Dover Motorsports Inc. activities since our last meeting.

Ed noted that Friday’s Fall NASCAR Event did not have a great deal of changes although

they changed a few things with Saturday and Sunday proceeding under standard operating

procedures.

Dover’s Summer Music Festival went extremely well and provided a strong economic impact

for central Delaware. This event has the potential to grow. He stated that they are bringing it

back next year. Their After Action Review brought a few things to light to work on prior to

next year’s event. Secretary Schiliro complimented the excellent coordination of security for

this event.

Kurt Reuther provided the Division of Public Health Briefing that Steve Blessing sent in advance

via email due to a schedule conflict.

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Delaware has one fatality from their West Nile cases. Public Health Preparedness are

watching West Nile cases but stated they are seeing anomalies not a trend so they do not

have a high level of concern at this time.

No up-ticks in reporting of influenza cases with this year being very quiet so far.

Kurt Reuther provided the Homeland Security briefing for members.

Strategy – Working to provide threat briefings to partnering agencies and organizations.

Delaware’s strategy focuses on natural, technological, chemical and natural hazards,

cyber-security, and public health and terrorism nexus events. Delaware’s “See Something,

Say Something” Campaign needs refocusing and emphasis in order to avoid citizen

complacency.

(a) It is very important to focus back to Department of Homeland Security reporting areas of

commercial facilities, malls, government facilities, banking and finance organizations,

transportation, cyber security and the persistent threats of homegrown terrorism.

(b) Kurt briefed everyone on Delaware’s planning and mitigations activities the THIRA and

State Preparedness Report emphasizing the need for new talks as DEMA is not alone in

preparing the plans and reports. Kurt stressed the need for a true partnership between

DIAC, DTI, and Delaware League of Local Governments (DLLG) with DEMA as the

facilitator.

Captain Sawyer briefed everyone on the DIAC.

DIAC Governance – Captain Sawyer provided a presentation on the State Standing

Information Needs Strategy (SINS) and Priority Requirements stating that the DIAC cannot

collect and report on everything. He asked members to go back to their organizations and

have a discussion with their key personnel and then requested that they send him

information and priority requirements needs for their organizations focusing on Delaware’s

7 core areas including (1) criminal, (2) organized crime, (3) homeland security threats, (4)

critical infrastructure (CI) and key resources (KR), (5) suspicious activity identification

including analysis of reports of activity, (6) maritime domain awareness, and (7) threat

information – Officer/First Responder (OFR) Bulletins, See Something, Say Something

(SSSS), SINS, and fluid topics.

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Secretary Schiliro stated that Delaware is constantly at odds on how best to deploy our

resources especially with Wilmington Homicides trending upward. Deployment of

resources involves risk patterns analysis and balance.

Kurt stated that Delaware’s Strategy document covers the 2012 – 2014 timeframe. Kurt will

provide hardcopies to member partners to review noting that this document is always a

work in progress. As we move into FY 13 policies an annual review is pending. Kurt would

like our partners to weigh-in on revisions to this important document and is compiling a list

based on analysis. Kurt requested member’s input requesting that they contact him to

provide their input. Following several questions Kurt provided an example stating the need

to maximize use of the Geographical Information System (GIS) for a common operating

picture of 9-1-1 data and the push to include private sector CI/KR to enhance exchange of

information and during emergencies to allow better coordination and understanding of

information received.

Kurt and Captain Sawyer are working on SINS and identifying what role if any the DIAC

has during an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is activated for emergencies. The

DIAC CI/KR representative Ron Bounds could use the DIAC website to aid information

sharing during emergencies. A representative from the DIAC will staff the EOC during

future EOC activations. Captain Sawyer is currently working on outreach to our partners

encouraging them to sign-up and disseminating requests for standing information needs.

DEMA is aware of potential hazards with chemical storage located under the same roof

being a huge asset. Kurt again emphasized that this is a pilot program and they will tweak

it as necessary.

Director Turner mentioned that there are a myriad of systems and programs to access and

deal with and reminded everyone not to work to reinvent the wheel. Jamie is working with

the Situation Unit in the Planning Section. Kurt emphasized the benefit seen from including

organizational resources at the EOC during activation. As private sector issues continue to

amass, truly understanding the need is key with limited resources as the DIAC and DEMA

staff is stretched. This is why it is so important to work to understand CI/KR private sector

needs.

Secretary Schiliro reminded everyone that the next Private Sector Briefing is scheduled for

October 17 at Wilmington University and will include:

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Active Shooter incident briefings

Emergency preparedness at PSE & G Salem-Hope Creek Nuclear Generating

Stations (a very good partnership)

What can we do for them?

What can they do to help us?

Grant Coordination – See Director Turner’s briefing located under bullet 4.

ACTION ITEMS

HSAC & private partnership outreach for EOC representation during activations.

Annual review of Delaware’s Strategy document – send revision recommendations to Kurt as

related to member organizations and Delaware’s 7 core areas of focus (found on page 7).

Member organization reporting of their Standing Information and priority requirements needs from

the DIAC to Kurt Reuther or Captain Sawyer.

See Something Say Something – refocusing employees, citizens, businesses, and visitors on the

importance benefits of this campaign.

Focus on expanding and continuing community outreach & private partnerships

Examine

Homegrown Violent Extremists

Increase awareness of retaliation of Islamic Community

DSP Mounted Unit

Research

State, Federal, Local & Private Interactions

Kurt Reuther recognized DSPs new Mounted Unit.

Secretary Schiliro discussed the active shooter issue mentioning the development of a state policy for

handling active shooter incidents for employees. He disseminated the policy to all Cabinet Secretaries

and the Attorney General’s Office. He is willing to share the policy upon organizational request. DSHS

and DEMA both have an active shooter training video on their websites.

Governor Markell signed the Comprehensive School Safety Plan legislation. Over the next 4

years all schools in Delaware will develop and operate under a common school safety program.

DSHS is working on acquiring a database to house the information at the Department of

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Education. Deputy Principal Assistant Randall Hughes will visit schools to begin to draft a plan

for each school. Delaware is the FIRST state to require all public schools operate under a

common safety plan. The plans are geared to the true first responders in our schools.

Director Jamie Turner reminded everyone that DEMA staff is part of the Delmarva Emergency Task

Force.

Delaware is predicted to have near normal temperatures with normal to above normal

precipitation levels from December through February.

Jamie attended a Los Angeles, CA Tabletop as a member of the IAB. Their report involved

multi-location and types of incident attacks.

5. Old Business –

6. New Business

Kurt Reuther advised members that Captain Malloy from the Delaware National Guard

received overseas orders.

Dwayne from DelDOT advised that they are expecting approximately 130,000 attendees to the

rural location for the Annual Punkin Chunkin with that figure growing approximately 30%

annually.

Dwayne also advised that the Delaware State University (DSU) Homecoming activities and the

annual Family Emergency Preparedness Day are both scheduled for this weekend with

Preparedness Day being held this year at the Delaware Agriculture Museum and Village located

next to the southern end of DSU and attendees utilizing DSU parking lot. This will greatly

increase traffic congestion in this area for people traveling north and southbound as well as

those headed to Dover Downs.

Bethany Beach is hosting a triathlon this weekend.

ACTION ITEMS

Secretary Schiliro requested that Kurt add to the HSAC Agenda the need to craft legislation

requiring reporting of events when expected attendance exceeds 20,000 people. This is needed to

assist with the deployment of resources for simultaneous multiple events occurring within the state.

Ed Klima is not a big proponent of over regulation and stated that the regulations already

exist but people are unaware of reporting requirements.

Gene Donaldson advised that in Delaware, DelDOT Traffic Management Center (TMC)

usually knows all of the events occurring although this information is not currently shared

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with the DIAC. Gene will work with Kurt and Captain Sawyer to open the flow of

communication. The current notification process is through DelDOT.delaware.gov with an

interactive map available with any incidents. DelDOT is working to build a system to share

the information with other state agencies. The application is in Beta testing for availability

through smartphones. Gene suggested holding an HSAC meeting at the DelDOT/TMC to

enable him to show members the data that is shared with Dispatch Centers. The TMC is

part of the CAD system that provides information electronically. Kurt, Gene, Dwayne and

Ed Klima will arrange to brief Delaware Emergency Medical Services Oversight Committee

(DEMSOC) members at a future meeting.

Dates to Remember - Kurt Reuther

09/25 & 26 - Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kipper

09/25, 26, & 27 – Dover Motorsports NASCAR Race – very busy

09/30 – 10/07 – Jewish Holiday Sukkoth

10/016 - Public Health Symposium at the Dover Sheraton

11/02 – 11/04 – Punkin Chunkin

11/06 – Election Day

11/08 – Return Day

Meeting adjourned at 1015 hours by Alan Metheny, seconded by Gene Donaldson.

Next Meeting: Wednesday, November 7, 2012

9:00 am – 11:00 am

Location: DEMA, 165 Brick Store Landing Road, Smyrna, DE

Lower Level Training Room