Federal facility security, additional actions needed to help agencies comply with risk assessment methodology standards : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author.

Contributor:

Goldstein, Mark

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, sponsoring body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Interagency Security Committee--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Interagency Security Committee.

Public buildings--Security measures--United States--Evaluation.

Public buildings.

Risk assessment.

risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 31 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.

Summary:

The 2012 shooting at the Anderson Federal Building in Long Beach, California, demonstrates that federal facilities and their employees as well as the public who visit federal buildings continue to be the targets of violence. The Federal Protective Service and about 30 other federal agencies are responsible for protecting civilian federal facilities and their occupants from potential threats, in part, by assessing risks to their facilities. ISC, an interagency organization led by the Department of Homeland Security, issues standards for facility protection. GAO was asked to examine how federal agencies assess risk to their facilities. This report assesses (1) the extent to which selected ISC member agencies' facility risk assessment methodologies align with ISC's risk assessment standards, and (2) how ISC assists member agencies in developing risk assessment methodologies and monitors compliance with these standards. GAO selected 9 of 53 ISC member agencies based on their missions and number of facilities. GAO compared each selected agency's risk assessment methodology to ISC's risk assessment standards. ISC is required to enhance security in and protection of federal facilities government-wide; recommendations GAO makes are to ISC and not its member agencies. GAO recommends that ISC take action to assess member agencies' compliance and provide additional risk- assessment methodology guidance. DHS concurred with GAO's recommendations.

Notes:

"March 2014."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed July 23, 2014).

"GAO-14-86."

OCLC:

884446835