Cooperative Activities of Center

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  1. The center shall share and provide homeland security activity information to the director of emergency management and homeland security, including, but not limited to, threats, warnings, and developing situations, when an investigation reveals conduct of a terroristic nature or in material support of terroristic activities, recruitment of terrorists, or information on the activities of known terrorist organizations.
  2. The center shall liaise with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Joint Terrorism Task Force, United States Department of Homeland Security, and other local, state, and federal intelligence and law enforcement officials for purposes of carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this article.

(Code 1981, §35-3-203, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 91, § 5/SB 416; Ga. L. 2018, p. 681, § 2-1/HB 779.)

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, deleted "director through the" following "The" near the beginning of subsection (a); deleted "the bureau," following "liaise with" near the beginning of subsection (b); deleted former subsection (c), which read: "The center shall allow unrestricted access to secure communications equipment to the director of emergency management and homeland security and his or her representatives who possess the appropriate federally approved security clearances for the dissemination of homeland security activity information by the United States Department of Homeland Security."; and deleted former subsection (d), which read: "The director of emergency management and homeland security shall serve as this state's security manager for the purpose of identifying and processing state personnel for security clearances through the United States Department of Homeland Security."


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