Alabama Administrative Code
Title 375 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Chapter 375-X-2 - DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASSISTANT DIRECTORS
Section 375-X-2-.02 - Assistant Director For Intelligence Analysis And Infrastructure Protection

(1) Serve as liaison and establish a cooperative relationship with the appropriate state and local agencies and departments and various private corporations.

(2) Be responsible for establishing and implementing homeland security policies for the collection, transmission and maintenance of intelligence and classified information by and between state and local departments while coordinating these activities with federal governmental efforts.

(3) Conducting analysis of information, including intelligence and open source information, lawfully collected by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and by elements of the intelligence community with respect to threats of terrorist acts against the United States and the State of Alabama.

(4) Integrating information, intelligence, and intelligence analysis to produce and disseminate infrastructure vulnerability assessments with respect to such threats.

(5) Identifying priorities for protective and supportive measures by the Department, by other state and local agencies, by the private sector, and other related entities.

(6) Reviewing, analyzing, and recommending improvements in law, policy, and procedure for the sharing of intelligence and other information with respect to threats against the United States and/or facilities within the State of Alabama.

(7) Developing a comprehensive State plan to provide for the security of key resources and critical infrastructures including, but not limited to, power production, generation, and distribution systems; information technology and telecommunications systems; electronic, financial and property record storage and transmission systems; emergency preparedness communications systems; and the physical and technological assets that support such systems.

(8) Coordinating with federal, state and local government personnel, agencies, and authorities, and the private sector, to provide advice on implementation of comprehensive State of Alabama plans.

(9) Supporting the intelligence and information requirements of the Department.

(10) Administering the Homeland Security Advisory System, exercising primary responsibility for public advisories relating to terrorist threats, and, in coordination with other agencies, providing specific warning information to state and local government personnel, agencies, and authorities, the private sector, the public, and other entities, as well as, advice about appropriate protective actions and countermeasures.

Author: James M. Walker, Jr.