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Michael Masters, Executive Director of Cook County Homeland Security, Discusses Project Shield on WTTW-11′s “Chicago Tonight”

By Sebastian James at January 12, 2012 | 10:23 am | 0 Comment

Video and an excerpt from a story as it appeared at WTTW.com,  Wednesday, January 11th: Project Shield, the federally funded Homeland Security program to install security cameras across Cook County, had problems at every stage of its development, according to a report released Sunday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general. Click here more...

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Cook County in Step With Inspector General’s Report on Project Shield

By Sebastian James at January 9, 2012 | 10:04 am | 3 Comments

After a thorough review of the program known as Project Shield, the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, in its recently completed report, concurs with the findings of an internal audit conducted by the Cook County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) last summer, and supports the direction in which more...

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President Preckwinkle Announces Overhaul of Project Shield

By Sebastian James at June 30, 2011 | 7:20 pm | 3 Comments

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced today that her administration has identified wide-reaching problems with Project Shield and are taking immediate steps to correct the waste of tax-payer dollars and life-threatening risks the project poses. With federal grant funding under the Homeland Security Urban Area Security Initiative going towards more...

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