The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security

The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security
Author: Lois M. Davis
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0833046152

The United States Postal Service has a statutory monopoly to deliver mail to mailboxes, but there are arguments to relax that monopoly. This study assesses the public safety concerns of doing so and makes recommendations to address these concerns.

Public Safety and Security Administration

Public Safety and Security Administration
Author: P.J. Ortmeier
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1998-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780750670791

Public Safety and Security Administration addresses public safety and security from a holistic and visionary perspective. For the first time, safety and security organizations, as well as their administration, are brought together into an integrated work. The protection of persons and property involves many public agencies and priivate organizations. Entities from the criminal jutics system (law enforcement, courts, corrections) as well as the fire service, private security and hazardous materials all contribute to public safety and security. This book addresses these entities, as well as safety and security issues, from a holistic and visionary perspective. It addresses criminal and non-criminal safety and security concerns, provides an overview of each entity (component) of the system of public safety and security, presents an overview of the administration process involved in planning, organizing, managing and evaluating public safety and security organizations and describes collateral functions of investigations, documentation and report writing. Public safety and security organizations should not work in isolation. Rather, they should collaborate to protect persons and property. This book represents the first time all the public safety and security entities have been addressed in one text. Focuses on the theories, concepts, practices and problems related to the present and future of public safety and security Examines different strategies for problem solving which personnel working in the field may utilize Synthesizes college-level lectures prepared, presented, and updated by the author over the past twenty years

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2007-06-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0309134005

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to hint at the possibilities for inappropriate or unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of privacy in the information age. It explores such important concepts as how the threats to privacy evolving, how can privacy be protected and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses and government in ways that promote privacy reasonably and effectively? This book seeks to raise awareness of the web of connectedness among the actions one takes and the privacy policies that are enacted, and provides a variety of tools and concepts with which debates over privacy can be more fruitfully engaged. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age focuses on three major components affecting notions, perceptions, and expectations of privacy: technological change, societal shifts, and circumstantial discontinuities. This book will be of special interest to anyone interested in understanding why privacy issues are often so intractable.

Forms Catalog

Forms Catalog
Author: United States Postal Service
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1988
Genre: Postal service
ISBN:

Are Federal and Postal Employees Safe at Work?

Are Federal and Postal Employees Safe at Work?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Medical Countermeasures Dispensing

Medical Countermeasures Dispensing
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2010-12-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309186501

During public health emergencies such as terrorist attacks or influenza outbreaks, the public health system's ability to save lives could depend on dispensing medical countermeasures such as antibiotics, antiviral medications, and vaccines to a large number of people in a short amount of time. The IOM's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events held a workshop on November 18, 2009, to provide an overview of current threats, recent progress made in the public health system for distributing and dispensing countermeasures, and remaining vulnerabilities.

The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security

The Role of the United States Postal Service in Public Safety and Security
Author: Lois M. Davis
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0833046608

The United States Postal Service has long held a statutory monopoly to deliver mail to mailboxes (known as the Mailbox Rule). Critics have argued against the Mailbox Rule on anti-monopoly and property rights grounds. But relaxing the Mailbox Rule may affect public safety and security. This study assesses the public safety concerns of relaxing the Mailbox Rule and makes recommendations to address these concerns.

Legislative Calendar

Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1997
Genre:
ISBN: