Maryland Governor’s Annual Report on Homeland Security, 2006

The Governor’s Annual Report on Homeland Security documents Maryland’s 2006 homeland-security accomplishments under Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. It was produced by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security (GOHS), created in July 2003 and led by Director Dennis R. Schrader, working through a Senior Policy Group spanning state public-safety, health, environment, transportation, and military agencies.

Highlights include the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), a first-of-its-kind intelligence fusion center recognized nationally as a model, and the allocation of more than $2.8 million in homeland-security grant funds to protect religious, cultural, and educational institutions, an initiative later duplicated nationwide.

The report also documents Maryland’s leadership in disaster response, including receiving and assisting more than 4,000 evacuees from Lebanon in 2006 (and more than 5,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees the prior year), organized around an all-hazards approach to emergency management and terrorism prevention.