Increasing signs of homeland security will turn up at Clallam County Courthouse by spring 2005 when video cameras are placed at the facility’s entrances.
County commissioners were approached Monday about entering into an agreement with Region 2 homeland security partner Kitsap County for $298,104 in federal funding.
Kitsap County is the lead agency in Region 2, which also includes Jefferson County.
Of that amount, $120,000 would be earmarked for assessing the courthouse’s “vulnerability” and “hardening” its security by spring 2005.
That includes security cameras at the courthouse’s three main entrances, one facing East Fourth Street, one at the old courthouse facing Lincoln Street and another at the entrance to the Sheriff’s Department offices at the courthouse’s east parking lot.
“It’s all part of the plan to harden the facility,” said Joe Ciarlo, county emergency coordinator.
Weapons training
Ciarlo said the grant would also be used to train county law enforcement and firefighting personnel how to identify weapons of mass destruction.
The dollars would also go into exercises and preparation for terrorist-caused disasters.
