Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Status of Emergency and State and Local Law211 Enforcement Systems Is Still Unknown. Statement of Jack L. Brock, Jr., Director, 211 Governmentwide and Defense Information Systems, Accounting and Information 211 Management Di

摘要

To prepare for this testimony, we reviewed the FCC's March 1999 report on Year211u001e2000 readiness in the communications sector, transcripts of the FCC's emergency 211u001eservices forum held in November 1998, and the April 1999 Network Reliability and 211u001eInteroperability Council (NRIC) report on Public Safety Answering Positions. We 211u001ealso reviewed available outreach strategies and plans for the Department of 211u001eJustice and its component bureaus and documentation on actual outreach activities 211u001ethat they have conducted. We discussed with department and bureau officials their 211u001erespective approaches to managing outreach activities, including outreach goals. 211u001eAdditionally, we attended meetings of the Police/Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice 211u001eworking group, reviewed documents prepared by the working group, and conducted 211u001einterviews with the Chairman of the group. We performed our work in March and 211u001eApril 1999 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.