California

http://www.ca.gov/

Organizations

California is located in FEMA Region IX; the Defense Coordinating Office responsible for brokering and arranging federal military support for the state is located in Oakland.

Organizations	Federal	State	Local	Total
Law Enforcement Law Enforcement Includes organizations at the federal, state and local levels that have the police powers to make arrests and investigate criminal matters.	163	11	51	225
Emergency Management Emergency Management Organizations tasked with responding to natural disasters, attacks using weapons of mass destruction and other emergencies.	1	19	7	27
Homeland Security Homeland Security Organizations responsible for activities -- such as infrastructure protection, border control and planning for the aftermath of terrorist attacks -- handled mainly by the Department of Homeland Security.	36	11	3	50
Counterterrorism Counterterrorism Organizations, such as the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces, that work exclusively on terrorism cases.	16	2	1	19
JTTFs Joint Terrorism Task Force A multiagency task force, run by the FBI, that has the lead in investigating terrorism within the United States.	8	0	0	8
Intelligence Intelligence and Fusion Organizations that collect, analyze and share information about domestic threats.	29	9	0	38
Fusion Centers Fusion Center A place where information from multiple agencies in a state or region is sent to be analyzed.	2	7	0	9
Totals	245	52	62	359

Initiatives

• Counterterrorism

  California has eight Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The original California JTTF in Los Angeles was established in 1986, and the San Francisco JTTF was established in 1997.

  Two other JTTFs are located at FBI field offices in Sacramento and San Diego. There are JTTF annexes in Fresno, Long Beach, Santa Ana (also known as the Orange County JTTF) and Riverside (also known as the Inland Empire JTTF). The U.S. attorney chairs Anti-Terrorism Advisory Councils (ATACs) in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Diego. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles is the second largest U.S. attorney's office in the country, with an active national security section that works with the district's four JTTFs.

• Intelligence

  California was one of six states to initially test the DHS Homeland Security Information System-Intel (HSIN-Intel) pilot, which allows fusion centers to directly share classified information to identify trends and patterns that may represent links to terrorism.

  California is a member of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the Western States Information Network (WSIN), the Navy-sponsored Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) and the Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST), an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-led initiative, begun in 2006, designed to increase the flow of information between participating agencies regarding transnational criminal organizations and violent gangs operating along the southern border. The Regional Information Sharing Systems Intelligence Center in Sacramento covers Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Guam. Intelligence units are maintained by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the San Diego Police Department. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has a homeland security division that includes the fusion center and a specialized counterterrorism unit. In 2010, the LAPD was designated as one of 12 state agencies to participate in the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) initiative. At the federal level, the FBI operates Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs) in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. There are three Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Intelligence Groups in California: The San Francisco FIG has jurisdiction for Northern California and northern Nevada. The Los Angeles FIG has jurisdiction for central California and southern Nevada. The San Diego FIG has jurisdiction for extreme Southern California. Workers at the Central Valley High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) in Fresno and the Northern California HIDTA in San Francisco perform criminal intelligence analysis.

• Fusion

  California operates seven state, regional and city-level fusion centers. The state Emergency Management Agency's Information Analysis, Watch and Warning Division provides structure, guidance and funding to the California State Terrorism Threat Assessment System, which encompasses:

  • The California State Terrorism Threat Assessment Center (STTAC), the primary state fusion center in Sacramento (formerly known as the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC) and established in September 2001) and four Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Centers (RTTACs), each of which corresponds with one of four FBI field offices in California. The STTAC provides statewide analysis, information tracking, pattern analysis, geographic report linkages, statewide intelligence products and regional investigative support throughout California. The RTTACs are responsible for developing a regional threat assessment picture, providing analytical functions and connecting directly to partners within the STTAS to share information, reports, and other threat and warning products. The regional fusion centers vary in size from 15 individuals in Sacramento and San Diego to more than 40 individuals in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
  • The Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC), also known as the Los Angeles Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center.
  • The Northern California Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center, formerly known as the San Francisco Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center and incorporating the South Bay Terrorism Early Warning Group (TEWG), along with TEWGs from the East and West Bay Area.
  • The Central California Intelligence Center, formerly known as the Sacramento Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center.
  • The San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center (SD-LECC), also known as the San Diego Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center, includes San Diego and Imperial counties. This fusion center particularly specializes in intelligence related to cross-border issues and gang activity.

  Two additional fusion centers are not certified by the federal government: An Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center (OCIAC) was organized in 2007 and assumed the duties of a former Terrorism Early Warning Group (TEWG). A Port of Long Beach Fusion Center opened in February 2009.

  "Project G" is a fusion center data-mining initiative that includes high-speed license plate scanners, allows link analysis of terrorist associations and relationships between individuals, locations, vehicles and movement patterns that might otherwise go undetected.

  The first pilot program for Terrorism Liaison Officers (TLOs) began in California in 2002 and linked local law enforcement officers to the state's Office of Homeland Security and the fusion center. By 2010, hundreds of law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel had been trained to be TLOs.

• Homeland Security

  A California Office of Homeland Security was created in February 2003 but merged with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) in 2009 to become the California Emergency Management Agency (CAL-EMA).

  The homeland security sector of CAL-EMA includes a planning, research and emergency preparedness division; an office of infrastructure protection; and an information analysis, watch and warning division. To assist in critical infrastructure protection, DHS Protective Security Advisor districts have been established in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Federal Protective Service (FPS) Region 9 headquarters is also located in San Francisco. Coast Guard District 11, one of four districts in the Pacific, is headquartered in Alameda.

• Law Enforcement

  The California Department of Justice is the statewide law enforcement agency and includes divisions of public rights, criminal law, law enforcement and justice information services.

  The California Highway Patrol provides security and protective services to elected state officials, state government employees and state facilities, as well as law enforcement assistance to local governments and allied agencies when situations exceed the limits of local resources. The four FBI field offices in California -- in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco -- operate resident agencies and satellite offices in Lancaster, Long Beach, the Los Angeles Airport, Palm Springs, Riverside, Santa Ana, Santa Maria, Ventura, Victorville, West Covina, Bakersfield, Chico, Fairfield, Fresno, Modesto, Redding, South Lake Tahoe, Stockton, Imperial County, North County (Carlsbad), Concord, Hayward, Monterey Bay, Oakland, Palo Alto, San Jose, San Rafael and Santa Rosa. The Coast Guard National Strike Force Pacific Strike Team is located in Novato. The Coast Guard's Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team (TACLET), a special operations unit that is part of the Deployable Operations Group, is located in San Diego.

• Emergency Management

  On Jan. 1, 2009, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services and the California Office of Homeland Security merged to become the California Emergency Management Agency (CAL-EMA). CAL-EMA operates the California State Warning Center (CSWC) for emergency management.

  The California Highway Patrol also operates the Emergency Notification and Tactical Alert Center (ENTAC) as a statewide emergency notification center, and a center for monitoring unusual events from disasters to antiwar protests. The Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP) of CAL-EMA is responsible for the state's effort to identify, prioritize and protect critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR). A restricted Web site allows public and private-sector agencies to receive intelligence bulletins and security and safety information. DHS Protective Security Advisor districts have been established in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.