EXECUTIVE ORDER

BY THE GOVERNOR:

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ORDERED:

REVISION OF OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY
EXECUTIVE ORDER

The Director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) serves as the State
Homeland Security Director (hereafter referred to as “the Director”); and

The Director is the central authority reporting to the Governor on all matters relating to
homeland security and is given command and control authority over all operational
areas involving terrorist activity within the state; and

The Director oversees all risk and threat assessments and coordinates all plans for timely
and complete responses through a network of state, local, and federal organizations,
including the coordination of efficient and timely flow of information; and

The Director is responsible for crisis and consequence management planning, including
measures to identify, acquire, and plan the use of resources needed to anticipate,
prevent, and/ or resolve a threat or act of terrorism; and

The Director coordinates and reviews all activities involving homeland security,
including the oversight of Homeland Security activities found in the Department of
Public Safety, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Georgia National Guard,
Department of Natural Resources, Department of Community Health, Division of Public
Health, and any other state entity providing support to Homeland Security; and

The Homeland Security Task Force reports directly to the Director and the Director
serves as the Commander of the Homeland Security Central Command when activated
by the Governor; and

The Director is responsible for evaluating information developed by the criminal justice
community in regard to threats or potential threats of terrorism.

Now, THEREFORE, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS GOVERNOR OF
THE STATE OF GEORGIA, IT IS HEREBY

That the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center (GISAC) shall be an “all-
crimes” fusion center maintaining a terrorism analytical component and shall operate
under the direction of the GBI Director.