EMERGING THREATS SEMINARS

A comprehensive look at specific emerging threats relating to homeland security.

1. Homegrown Terrorism
   Moderator: Jerry Adams, Retired, Lodi Police Department
   Frank Ciluffo, Director and Associate Vice President for Homeland Security, George Washington Homeland Security Policy Institute
   Drew Parenti, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (Invited)
   Scott McGregor, U.S. Attorney, Department of Justice (Invited)
   Mike Downing, Deputy Chief, Los Angeles Police Department, Counter Terrorism Bureau
   
   These discussions will illuminate the unique threat of homegrown terrorism, share the lessons learned from California cases (Lodi and Torrance), and examine the efforts underway at the local, state and national level to combat radicalization in our communities and prisons.
   
   
2. Counter-Intelligence & Emerging Threats Against Homeland Security
   Erroll G. Southers, Chief of Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Los Angeles World Airports

EMERGING THREATS SEMINARS (continued)

1. The JIS Case and Prison Radicalization
   Moderator: Tom Carroll, Lead Analyst, State Terrorism Assessment Center
   Anthony Chause, Chief, Office of Correctional Safety, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
   Rolando Tostado, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
   Matthew Schlerf, Detective, Torrance Police Department
   
   Radicalization not only threatens our society from the back rooms of bookstores and cafes, but from behind the cement walls and barbed wire which houses our State’s criminals. This is a dynamic situation in which recruitment to extremist behavior can easily be facilitated by the availability of an audience of individuals who may already be experiencing disenfranchisement and isolation from the population at large, and may have a predisposition to violence. Experts on this panel will speak to this growing issue, and present a case in which recruitment to radicalization began within the walls of our prisons, but where the violent nature and destructive intentions of these recruits only became evident when returned to our open society.
   
   
2. Food Safety and Security: Threats and Experience in Response
   Dr. Annette Whiteford, DVM, Director of Animal Health and Food Safety Services, California Department of Food and Agriculture
   Dr. Jeff Farrar, Branch Chief, Department of Public Services
   John Rogers, California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health/ Environmental Health Division Chief

AFTERNOON SEMINAR

1. Collaboration with California Tribal Nations
   Robert Holden, National Congress of American Indians (Invited)
   Olin Jones, Tribal Liaison, Department of Justice George Russell, Author
   
   A look at Tribal integration with regards to collaboration in emergency planning and preparedness at all levels of government.