Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
As Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano prepares to nominate the Obama Administration’s new FEMA Administrator, the Disaster Accountability Project is asking each potential nominee to tell the public how they will fix FEMA. The letter asks each potential nominee about their commitment to FEMA transparency and accountability, how they will address and respond to thousands [...]
With temperatures hovering around 20 degrees, U.S. Airways Flight 1549 took off this afternoon from New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Minutes later, the Airbus carrying 155 people crashed into the Hudson river near the Lincoln Tunnel. A flock of birds, possibly, flew into the jet’s engines and caused them to fail. Thanks to a stellar response by the pilot, emergency [...]
By Sirrah Harris, Fordham Law Student Note: This post was written on 1/9/09 during Fordham Law School’s Student Hurricane Network trip to New Orleans, LA to volunteer for the Disaster Accountability Project. CERT stands for community emergency response team and it is just what it sounds like. CERTs are teams of ordinary citizens that have [...]