Use Chapter 6 of Emergency Response and Emergency Management Law,"Managing a Response: Standard Operating Procedures, Mutual Aid, and the Incident Management System," as a basis for this case study.
The creation of the Department of Homeland Security, National Response Framework and the National Incident Management System have forced a change in the way local and state governments respond to emergency incidents. We have seen over the last several years the federal government assume more responsibility for emergency response in the country.
Using the Deanna C. Buttram, et al. Plaintiffs v. United States of America as a starting point for this Written Case Study, address the following questions:
· What are the public policy issues that this decision brings forward for disaster managers?
· What are the legal and public policy implications of this new way of dealing with incident management systems, mutual aid agreements and standard operating procedures to emergency response?
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