In Texas, our Texas Department of Public Safety’s Fusion Center handles all operational aspects, 24-hours a day. The program used to rest with the agencies Division of Emergency Management, but was moved to the Fusion Center. It could have also gone to the agency’s Communications Division, either is 24/7.
We have pretty structured checklists for each of our alerts that lead analysts through the various steps for processing.
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