...Border Patrol also serves to ensure that international and trade is conducted in a lawful way (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2014). As a federal agency, the Border Patrol is under high public scrutiny. A federal agent that is accused of unethical behavior will be in the national spotlight, and it will discredit the entire agency, no matter how isolated the incident may have been. Thus, with any federal agency, the employees of the Border Patrol are held to a higher standard than other employees are. If the hiring process is to be used as a measure of how high the standards are for Border Patrol employees, then it should be no surprise that only the most qualified individuals are accepted (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2014). A thorough background investigation is conducted on any potential agent to ensure that the candidate is loyal to the United States. The Border Patrol’s Mission Statement (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2014) makes it clear that the Border Patrol serves “the American Public with vigilance, integrity and professionalism.” In addition, the agency lists as a core value that of service to country, noting that the American people puts its trust in the Border Patrol to protect their home. Because the Border Patrol has a duty to protect the citizens of the United States and its borders, the Border Patrol has a very strong deontological ethical system in place. The Border Patrol’s Standards of Conducts includes the policies and expectations...
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...by litigation. Human resource departments now have many rules and regulations that need to be followed or the company can face stiff fines and penalties. Some of these regulations that have been established by the United States, such as the Department of Labor, the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Americans with Disabilities Act from 1990, and the Department of Homeland Security will be discussed in this paper in relation to how they have an effect on all human resource departments of all types of organizations. The Department of Labor administers and enforces more than 180 federal laws (Calvasina G,Calvasina R, Calvasina E, 2009). These laws cover a large variety of workplace laws. These include some that assure workplace safety, minimum wage, overtime pay, freedom from employment discrimination, and unemployment insurance. The human resource departments of all companies have to assure that they are in compliance with minimum wage pay, making sure that all employees get paid appropriately for overtime, and that the workplace is safe and has healthy conditions for all employees. Another way this effects human resources is they have to continually assure that no employee was let go for a discriminatory reason. If it is found that the company has not hired someone, or even fired someone because of discrimination, the company can face huge fines. Also, when laying someone off, or firing them, human resources have to make a decision as to whether they would benefit...
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...Transportation Security Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States. The TSA was created as a response to the September 11, 2001, attacks. The organization was charged with developing policies to protect U.S. transportation, especially in airport security and the prevention of aircraft hijacking. With state, local, and regional partners, the TSA oversees security for highways, railroads, buses, mass transit systems, pipelines and ports. However, the bulk of the TSA's efforts are in aviation security. “Most of TSA’s workforce is Transportation Security Officers. About 50,000 TSOs screen 1.8 million passengers every day at airports all over the country. The TSA has taken several steps in recent years to promote continued education, foster a safe and productive work environment, and identify and reward outstanding performance.” (Transportation Security Administration, 2013) However, it seems the TSA is more interested in the appearance of security than actual security. The TSA has a huge task of ensuring security at different check points of the country. Over the last few years, they have maintained strict security measures because of the few incidents that took place at different intervals of the year. Their major task is to ensure security at the airports and they conduct security checks of the passengers with the help of various procedures. The security officers...
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...Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements Gary Allford HCS/341 8 August 2011 Lee Hoffman Legal, Safety, and Regulatory Requirements According to the Bureau of Labor, statistics indicate that more than 4.1 million people were hurt or injured on-the-job in 2006 and 5,488 were killed in 2007 (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2010, p. 511). Laws and regulatory requirements are currently in place to standardize and promote workplace safety. Organizations with extensive safety programs have reduced number of accidents, decreased workers’ compensation claims and lawsuits and lesser accident-related expenditures (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010, p. 511). This paper discusses the effects of legal, safety and regulatory requirements in ensuring employee safety and welfare in the workplace. In addition, it will also discuss other employee-related legal regulatory requirements and topics pertaining to human resources process in hiring employees to prevent costly litigation. Safety and the Law Many Human Resources (HR) experts and managers have implemented HR strategies to comply with federal regulations to supervise efficiently employee health and safety in the workplace. An organization has the responsibility as mandated by all levels of government to offer all employees the assurance of a working environment free from health hazards. The two important workplace regulations in place that affect employees at all levels are workers’ compensation laws at the...
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...train and the way we communicate with each other. Even though terrorist attacks had occurred many times prior to September 11th, it took something that overwhelming for us to realize that we were not prepared. As I think of the main police mission to serve and protect, terrorism has caused us not only to think of those two fundamental ideas, but to expand into training, knowledge and partnership. Terrorism has caused police departments to create specialized units in handling terrorism. The Patriot Act opened the door for the line of communication between local and federal governments. Before the Patriot Act, it was not as easy to gain information regarding possible attacks or even information regarding individuals. Now the FBI and other government agencies disseminate this information down to local agencies and work side by side. For the department I work for, we have created a Homeland Security Division which was created by the Urban Area Security Initiative. The new division was established to create a sustainable national model program to enhance security and overall preparedness to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism (Santa Ana). The division not only provides the street cops information regarding a terrorist acts, they provide all sorts of training opportunities to the officers. Training classes are always being taught regarding, active shooters, bomb threats, Terrorist updates and many more. One disagreement that exists regarding the appropriate law...
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...to humankind. Such is the affirmation made by Thomas L. Rempfer in his 2009 controversial article entitled “The Anthrax Vaccine: A Dilemma for Homeland Security”. His argument essentially relies on the thesis that both the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Resources orchestrated an irrational climate of fear among the American people in which their vulnerability to anthrax and other potential terrorist was highlighted and presented as an issue of national security (2009). The primary reason for such shocking actions by these trusted and respected US institutions was to justify the continued testing of an anthrax vaccination that was imposed on American soldiers as part a mandatory anthrax vaccine immunization program (2009). According to Rempfer, the army and the Department of Defense officials believed that only the threat of an anthrax epidemic would force the government to reconsider closing the mandatory testing of the vaccine on the reluctant soldiers. He argues that the Department of Defense, as well as the Department of Health and Human Resources, played an unintentional role in the highly publicized 2001 anthrax attacks in which random individuals were targeted through the postal system. Scholars disagree on the actual causes of the anthrax scare. Some focus their reasons around national security concerns prompted by 2001, and there are those who agree with Rempfer that various governmental agencies collaborated and actually introduced the...
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...June 30.2104 Kimberly Rieson The History of Police Industrialization and the large population in urban areas in the 17th and 18th century made it hard to maintain law and order in England and some major cities in America. Policing during that time consisted of volunteers from the community, also the night watchman and constables were employed but only on a part-time basis. These men had little to no training, used excessive physical force and intimidation to gain control. Sir Robert Peel (known as the “Father of Modern Policing”) was Prime Minister twice and as Home Secretary created the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. The Metropolitan Police Act was passed by British Parliament in 1829, and the police were born. ) ” As a form of ethical and operational guidance, Peel laid down nine principals intended to guide police in terms of their mandate, interaction with citizens, use of force and their overall criminal justice system” (Zacharias, 2009,para. 4). The terms "bobbies and "peelers" come from his name. Sir Robert Peel brought professionalism and accountability to the police by using the following methods also known as the Peelian Principles. The principles traditionally ascribed to Peel state that: every police officer should be issued identification number, to assure accountability for his actions. Whether the police are capable is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime. Above all else, a competent authority figure knows trust and accountability...
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...Trident University Module #1 – Case Assignment MHE 512 – Disaster Relief Objectives: For this case you are discuss the response by government, NGOs and volunteer groups to Hurricane Katrina. The question for you to answer is whether or not the organizational structure for disaster response for the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and FEMA was adequate to effectively respond to a Cat. 3 - 5 hurricane on August 26th, 2005. As you respond to this question please complete the following: o Review the various reports concerning the Katrina response and relief efforts. Identify an example of a relief effort which was successful and one which was unsuccessful. o Discuss the reasons why the examples you cited above were or were not successful. Comment specifically on whether you believe that the organizational structure at the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and the Federal government was adequate, including communications and command and control. (Please refer to the Organization Structure for incident management in the National Response Plan.) Focus on how coordinating structures, processes, and protocols were employed to manage the disaster response. Discuss the importance of social networks during the Katrina Disaster. Please review the following (referenced) article and comment on the importance of social networks during a disaster response. ~ 1 of 11 ~ MHE 512- MOD 1 - Case Introduction to Disaster Relief; Organizational Structure of Relief Organizations;...
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...DynCorp Anthony Allen ETH/316 August 25, 2014 Dr. Michelle Kuamoo DynCorp The US defense industry is a worldwide program that enables research and development, and maintenance of military weapons systems to meet U.S. military requirements. The Defense industry consists the DOD and thousands of defense based companies. The defense industry has companies located in countries all over the world that are vital to mobilization, deployment, and sustainment of military operations (Homeland security, 2014). The defense industry has come under scrutiny, because of its work with the war in Afghanistan, the battles here in the US, and defense spending. These days, people and businesses are influenced by social media, television, peer pressure, and these outlets can change the way a company functions or operates. Despite the best logical responses to certain social pressures, the defense industry actions will not please everyone, but it will provide the most basic sense of security we are all use to. A good example is the F-22 military aircraft was created to revolutionize the way we fight a war, so far the F-22 raptor program consists of 187 aircraft and cost 79 billion dollars($420 million per aircraft), but matched with a cheaper aircrafts in other countries. After a series of highly publicized mishaps (faulty oxygen systems and the death of Capt. Jeff Haney) and media pressure, the aircraft was grounded till the problems were fixed (Lee Farran, 2012). My employer, DynCorp International...
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...from all non-vulnerable states.” (Bishop & Bailey, 1996, p. 2). Their report focuses on computer vulnerabilities from a state configuration view where computers are state devices, and a vulnerability is any flaw in software that allows a user (whether authorized or unauthorized) to transition the system from an “authorized state” to an “unauthorized state.” We commonly reference these types of vulnerabilities today as buffer overflow vulnerabilities, input validation vulnerabilities, improper system configuration, etc. 2. Longley and Shain define a vulnerability using several different methods. "1) In computer security, a weakness in automated systems security procedures, administrative controls, Internet controls, etc., that could be exploited by a threat to gain unauthorized access to information of to disrupt critical processing. 2) In computer security, a weakness in the physical layout, organization, procedures, personnel, management, administration, hardware or...
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...Assignment 3 Privacy: Perspectives, Public Information, and U.S. Legislation Maria A Castro 11/25/2014 IT590 Legal and Ethical Issue in IT Professor Ellen Raineri Kaplan University Table of Contents Abstract 1. Part 1. Explain the Fair Information Practices Act. Compare and contrast the Code of Fair Information Practices with the private sector’s use of information. Is the private sector better at self-policing than the government, or should the government’s rules be extended to include private database ………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Part 2. What are your rights with regards to the information that you post or text? Does your level of privacy increase depending on your network/cell phone provider? The social media site that you are using? Explain.................................................................................................. 6 Part 3. Research legislation related to technology that has been proposed or passed within the last five years. Describe the legislation. Indicate whether it passed, or if it is still in consideration. Then, explain the benefits and drawbacks of the legislation you chose. ………………….. 8 Conclusion Reference Abstract This paper provide an overview of what are the main points of the Fair Information Practice Act, and how this regulations are impacting the use of private and personal information within the digital transmissions. The increase number of user’s texting and sharing information in social networks...
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...Fundamentals of Accounting: Managerial verses Financial Accounting Fundamentals of Accounting acct122 Fundamentals of Accounting: Managerial verses Financial Accounting What has the organization in its focus; futuristic planning, financial control, and data based decision making affecting its reports and suggestions; and an emphasis on relevance and timeliness in its decision making (2012)? The answer to this question is managerial accounting. According to J. W. Jones (2013), a retired managerial accountant, her job and other positions with the title are responsible for reporting financial information to the company’s administration and parties outside of her organization such as stockholders or creditors; however, her focus was the internal accounting services and needs of the business’s management. Mrs. Jones confirms there is a difference between managerial and financial accounting. Her career choice was managerial accounting which specialized in helping gather and communicate the information needed to set the company’s long term objectives and goals for cost control, revenue strengths and weaknesses, and profit data statistics within in local departments, regional and often territorial plants. At times, Mrs. Jones found herself working with certain data regarding customer groups and how they would be affecting that business segment in the future. This differed from financial accounting in that the latter would handle the matter from a historical account...
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...SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The Company's approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of approximately $10.6 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2012. (About SAIC 2012) SAIC is rank number 5 on the Top 100 government contractors list of Washington Technology; with $4.1 billion in government contracts revenue and $1.4 billion in civilian contracts revenue and approximately 41,000 employees worldwide. SAIC is the principal defense contractor for Joint Intelligence Operations Capability-Iraq (JIOC-I), a capability that provides military forces with access to critical intelligence while it has maximum value, and visualization applications that highlight locations and possible vulnerabilities of adversaries across multiple theaters of operation. The company also has led the way in homeland security and public safety, developing the Integrated Container Inspection System (ICIS) to examine U.S. - bound cargo with significantly reduced impact on the flow of commerce. In addition,...
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...years. SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The Company's approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of approximately $10.6 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2012. (SAIC, 2014) SAIC is rank number 5 on the Top 100 government contractors list of Washington Technology; with $4.1 billion in government contracts revenue and $1.4 billion in civilian contracts revenue and approximately 41,000 employees worldwide. SAIC is the principal defense contractor for Joint Intelligence Operations Capability-Iraq (JIOC-I), a capability that provides military forces with access to critical intelligence while it has maximum value, and visualization applications that highlight locations and possible vulnerabilities of adversaries across multiple theaters of operation. The company also has led the way in homeland security and public safety, developing the Integrated Container Inspection System (ICIS) to examine U.S. - bound cargo with significantly reduced impact on the flow of commerce. In addition, SAIC is working with the...
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...Pollock, it is the largest issue facing our country today. The chapter begins by discussing 9/11 and the counter-terrorism measures the United States took as a result of the terrorist attack. With almost 3,000 people dying, the government began taking action and stepping up homeland security through detaining people, using private prisons in foreign countries, torturing suspects and known terrorists, wiretapping, and more. There lies an issue here with whether or not these actions taken by U.S. officials were, and are, ethical by our nation’s standards, even when attempting to secure the safety of our people. Examples...
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