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Beyond the Border Report: Facilitating the Conduct of Cross-Border Business
On June 26, 2013, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Canadian Public Safety Vic Toews, and Canada's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney released a progress report entitled “Facilitating the Conduct of Cross-Border Business.” This report describes bilateral efforts to ensure business travelers benefit from more efficient and predictable border clearance processes.
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DHS/ALL/PIA-044 DHS Single Point of Service Request for Information Management Tool
The Single Point of Service (SPS) refers to a joint effort between the Office of Operations Coordination (OPS), National Operations Center (NOC), and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) to provide a centralized DHS Headquarters location to receive, facilitate, process, and, in some circumstances, respond to operational or intelligence related “Requests for Information” (RFI) that originate from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial entities. In order to perform this function, OPS and I&A employ the RFI Management Tool, which standardizes the process by which entities request operational or intelligence-related information. DHS is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because the RFI Management Tool collects, retains, and disseminates personally identifiable information (PII). DHS is updating and reissuing the SPS-RFI PIA, originally published in June 2013, in order to better identify the potential privacy risks and mitigations associated with the use of both an unclassified and an accredited classified instance of the application. The 2013 PIA only dealt with an unclassified instance of the application.
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Progress Report on the President's Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence
The Obama Administration released a report on the progress of the executive actions to help reduce gun violence, including new recommended emergency plans.
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DHS/ALL/PIA-002 DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP)
The Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP) is a customer service web-based initiative developed as a voluntary program to provide a one-stop mechanism for individuals to request redress, who make inquiries, or seek resolution regarding difficulties they experienced during their travel screening at transportation hubs (such as airports and train stations), or crossing U.S. borders. DHS TRIP provides traveler redress intake and processing support while working with relevant DHS components to review and respond to requests for redress. This privacy impact assessment (PIA) update is necessary because the documentation required to resolve a request is now based upon the nature of the traveler’s complaint, rather than the previous requirement of a traveler submitting “at least three” documents for all requests.
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DHS Impact of Federal Budget Sequestration
Records describing the impact of federal budget sequestration upon Department of Homeland Security operations and functions.
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United States - Canada Binational Border Infrastructure Investment Plan
United States - Canada Binational Border Infrastructure Investment Plan
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Cybersecurity and Privacy
DHS employs a layered approach to privacy oversight for the department’s cybersecurity activities, beginning with the Chief Privacy Officer and extending through NPPD’s Component Privacy Officer and dedicated privacy staff across the Department.
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DHS/ICE/PIA-035 – Imaged Documents and Exemplars Library (IDEAL)
DHS/ICE/PIA-035 – Imaged Documents and Exemplars Library (IDEAL) Privacy Impact Assessment
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Faith-based Security and Communications Advisory Committee Membership List
The Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Faith-based Communications and Security Advisory Committee was established to provide the Agency’s Secretary with recommendations and explore current and potential security information sharing opportunities and methods between the Department of Homeland Security and faith-based organizations. The Faith-based Security and Communications Advisory Committee Membership List follows.
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Task Force on CyberSkills Membership List
On June 6, 2012, Secretary Napolitano announced the formation of a Task Force on CyberSkills with a two-part mandate: first, to identify the best ways DHS can foster the development of a national security workforce capable of meeting current and future cybersecurity challenges; and second, to outline how DHS can improve its capability to recruit and retain that sophisticated cybersecurity talent. This document contains the members of the Task Force on CyberSkills.