Analysis of Terrorism and Homeland Security Management Acts Comparison

This report provides a concise overview of terrorism and homeland security management, with a specific focus on the USA Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act. The introduction highlights the significance of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent changes in U.S. counter-terrorism policies. The discussion section compares the objectives and functions of the Homeland Security Act, which aims to minimize damage and provide assistance after terrorist incidents, with the Patriot Act, which focuses on identifying and punishing individuals involved in terrorist acts. The report also outlines the roles of various organizations within Homeland Security and the privacy considerations associated with both acts. It concludes by summarizing the key differences and potential effectiveness of these acts in securing the nation and ensuring effective law enforcement. The report is supported by references to academic and professional sources.

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Introduction:
The terrorism activity took place on September 11, 2001 is still counted as the furious
event of terrorist activity in United States. The Bush Administration focused on to curb the
terrorist activities in order to combat terrorism and sought support from the efforts of other
governments as well in serving the country and save people from terrorist activities
happening further. The laws and orders related to terrorism acts changed in course of time to
reshape the anti – terrorist activities (Kerwin, 2016). This paper will briefly discuss about the
changes in the acts in terms of changes happened to the USA Patriot Act and Homeland
Security Act.
Discussion:
The primary objective of the Homeland Security Act is to provide security parameters
around the protestant activities and the attacks related to the terrorist events. The main goal of
them is to minimize the damage and give assistance to the vulnerable condition after the
terrorist incident happens. Whereas, the major role of the Patriot Act is to determine and
punish the individuals involved in the terrorist acts (Anton et al., 2019). The patriot acts are
made to allow an emergency disclosure of the communications related to the electronics and
media in order to protect life and keep the motive of terrorism shorten in the domestic areas.
The authorities can be interpreted in order to the inclusions of the requests related to
the protected health information of several types without the expression of the authorization
of the patients or the legal guardian. This act includes many organizations such as The
Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Coast
Guard in order to establish the security parameters all around the United States (Madsen,
Traub & Burns, 2017). Whereas, the Patriot Act provides comfort to the privacy officers in

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terms of good in manner, managing faith in the community and engaged in producing
tangible things will not be counted as a threat to the country.
The main objectives of the Homeland Security Department is to evaluate the
legislature and the regulations of the proposals in terms of involving the use related to the
collections and the disclosure of personal identified information, to centralize and provide the
oversight of programs to implement and act on the Privacy operations. The department also
focuses on the operations related to the incidents of privacy matters to provide the programs
responses that address the incidents involved in the creation of transparency in the
department. Whereas, the Patriot Act provides liability to the civilians and some certain
amount of unauthorized disclosures of the operations led to the wilful disclosing of the
records that can be obtained by the investigation officers or the law enforcement directorates
of the government identity to raise concerns about protecting the Americans against the acts
of terrorism.
Conclusion:
The research paper briefly describes about the Terrorism and Homeland security
management with the views and analysis of the Homeland Security Act and the Patriot Act.
The paper describes the acts in order to make the difference visible and the possibilities found
in the acts that can be the effective to control over the acts and make them effective to secure
parameters for the law enforcement officials.

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