Rockland County Executive, Sheriff Sign Resolution for Homeland Security Grant

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Rockland County Executive, Sheriff Sign Resolution for Homeland Security Grant

Rockland County will be safer thanks to a grant for $558,588 from the New York State Office for Homeland Security.Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Rockland Sheriff Louis Falco signed a resolution Monday to accept the funds, which will be used for the County’s counter-terrorism teams. The state grant will help Rockland County be better prepared in […]

Does the Department of Homeland Security Make You Feel Secure?

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BY DIANE DIMOND I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about our Department of Homeland Security lately. The DHS was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, of course, but since then it has grown to mammoth proportions. It now has more than 200,000 employees, and it is the nation’s third-largest Cabinet department after Defense […]