In the 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, anti-terrorism intelligence at all levels – federal, state and local – has become a lot more sophisticated.
Mark Fontenot, the intelligence coordination center manager at the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, says everything is a lot more advanced now.
“We have stronger intelligence sharing, better emergency management, improved interagency coordination, and we actually have a much deeper understanding of homeland security threats,” Fontenot explained.
Fontenot says as part of its main responsibility, GOHSEP does a lot of public outreach.
“In that public outreach, we try to educate the public entities, private entities and critical infrastructure partners across the state on how important it is to ‘see something, say something,'” Fontenot said.
Fontenot says the goal today is not only to respond faster, but to identify, assess and disrupt threats before they become incidents.
