(a) The department of homeland security is created. The director shall appoint a deputy director of the department of homeland security, with the approval of the governor. The director may appoint assistants as may be necessary. The director and the director's assistants shall be compensated in an amount to be determined and fixed by the human resources division of the department of administration and information. The deputy director shall serve at the pleasure of the director. (b) The director may employ technical, clerical, stenographic and other personnel and make expenditures within the appropriations or from other funds made available to the director for purposes of homeland security as necessary to carry out this act. The director shall be provided with necessary and appropriate office space, furniture, equipment, stationery and printing in the same manner as for personnel of other state agencies. (c) The director is the administrative head of the Wyoming department of homeland security. In addition to the duties described in W.S. 19-13-104(d), the director: (i) Shall be responsible, in consultation with the governor and in accordance with this act, for the implementation of the state program for homeland security for Wyoming; (ii) Shall assist the local authorities and organizations in the planning and development of local homeland security plans and programs; (iii) Shall coordinate the activities of all organizations for homeland security within the state, including all state departments; (iv) Shall maintain liaison with and cooperate with homeland security agencies and programs of other states and of the federal government; (v) Shall have additional authority, duties and responsibilities authorized by this act as may be prescribed by the governor or the director; (vi) May prescribe reasonable qualifications for officers and employees of local programs and reasonable regulations for the administration of local programs; and (vii) Shall assist and coordinate with local, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies to employ the integrated public alert and warning system or successor system to notify residents of imminent threat by natural disaster or manmade event or to aid in the safe recovery of missing or endangered persons, which adheres to United States department of justice criteria. The director shall also assist local, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies integrate additional missing persons alert communications networks that enable and help facilitate search efforts for an adult at risk or other missing person of an age, needs or circumstances that may fall outside the scope of the America's missing: broadcast emergency response alert criteria. As used in this paragraph "adult at risk" means an adult who has a developmental disability, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease or dementia, or who suffers from or could, without access to medication, suffer from cognitive impairment if the impairment would likely render the adult incapable of getting to a familiar location without assistance. (d) The deputy director shall perform duties as assigned by the director and, in the absence of the director, is the head of the Wyoming department of homeland security. (e) The department of homeland security may receive and share criminal identification, intelligence and criminal history information available to law enforcement agencies for the purposes provided by W.S. 19-13-103.
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