Category: Security
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Secret U.S. Marshals’ report ID’d security weaknesses at Broward courthouse before escape
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A confidential U.S. Marshals’ security assessment for the Broward County Courthouse exposed numerous weaknesses in the building’s security system four years before last week’s scandalous escape of a 21-year-old murder suspect.
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Security clearance lapses stemmed from Washington’s emphasis on speed over quality
By Rebecca LaFlure Center for Public Integrity Efforts by the government to fix a notable problem sometimes create a new mess that turns out to be as insidious and troublesome as the first, or even worse. This is what happened when Washington attempted to improve the way its security agencies vetted hundreds of thousands of…