Organizations are continuing to plan for and deploy video systems to solve a variety of problems. From traffic cameras to in vehicle and body-worn, the growth of video deployments is happening at a rapid pace. Given the expectations of citizens and politicians, this drive to deploy video won’t slow down in the near future. Therefore, it is critical to have a sound plan in place to ensure that scarce resources – time, money, personn...

Registration will open in late April 2016. Thank you to all those that attended the sold-out 2015 NAHRO Summer Conference in Austin, TX! Session presentations and handouts are available to registered conference attendees.

Department of Homeland Security Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) The Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) is a cooperative assessment of specific critical infrastructure within a designated geographic area and a regional analysis of the surrounding infrastructure led by the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate, Office of Infrastructure Protection in collaboration with Northeastern University and the Kostas Res...

Please join us for this unique opportunity to enhance your organization's supply chain security and resilience. This no-cost, regional supply chain resilience workshop is an opportunity for private sector and State, local, and Federal partners to focus on critical infrastructure supply chain security and best practices. The workshop will last one-half day on the afternoon of August 13th. Registration: 12:30 - 1:00 PM Workshop starts: 1:00 PM R...

The Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) cordially invites you to participate in the Maine Climate Change Adaptation Tabletop Exercise (TTX) to be held on May 7th from 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. This Tabletop Exercise (TTX) will employ the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA 3) and the Climate Resilience Toolkit (CRT) to lead Federal, State, local, and private sector stakeholders through the Five Step Climate Change Adaptation Planning Proces...

Facilitation is a skill that promotes effective and efficient use of time, people and energy and provides a deliberate process that leads to specific outcomes. If you work with teams or citizen or staff groups you will gain strategies that will make those meetings productive. This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback. Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills.

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Given today's ever-changing threat environement, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization's incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity Concordia University and the National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are hosting a one-day Security...

AWRA, the premier multidisciplinary water resources professional society, is coming to Portland, OR, for its 48th Annual Water Resources Conference. The AWRA Annual Conference hosts a diverse group of water resources professionals who present their latest research and case studies, discuss current hot topics, and share new ideas. Conference attendance is usually between 400-500 people. Important Dates General Call for Abstracts (with accepted...

Uncertain how public records and open meetings laws apply to you? Find out what Oregon law has to say about balancing the public's right to information with the individual's right to privacy. If you're involved with a public entity or if you represent the media, you need to know the ins and outs of federal and state public records and open meetings laws. Join us for this seminar and you'll get updates on recent developments in the interpretati...

ACORE is conducting regional outreach throughout the country to further mobilize our member thought-leaders on federal, state and regional energy planning and public policy, and to provide a new channel for peer collaboration. Renewable resources in the U.S. are not aligned according to state boundaries. Policy guiding use of renewable energy is set at the Federal, state and local levels of government, however, while renewable energy solutions...