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Office of Civilian Defense was a United States federal emergency war agency set up May 20, 1941, by Executive Order 8757 to co-ordinate state and federal measures for protection of civilians in case of war emergency. [1]
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1961–64. It replaced the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization . The organization was renamed the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency on May 5, 1972, and was abolished on July 20, 1979, pursuant to Executive Order 12148. [ 1 ]
Thus, the civil defense of World War II began very much as a continuation of that of World War I. Very soon, however, the idea of local and state councils bearing a significant burden became viewed as untenable and more responsibility was vested at the federal level with the creation of the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) within the Office of ...
Feb. 6—Albuquerque's Civilian Police Oversight Agency has a new director, who also happens to be the old director. The Albuquerque City Council selected interim director Dianne McDermott from ...
In October 1941, Fauset was appointed to the newly formed Race Relations Division of the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD), one of the World War II agencies of the Roosevelt administration. The OCD was headed by Mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, from 1941 to 1942, and then by James M. Landis. The agency was tasked with coordinating and ...
So far, we've submitted 193 Freedom of Information requests for detailed crash records from police departments in the state. Our work continues.
In Miami-Dade, the two-year-old Independent Civilian Panel, revived after the 2020 murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd, is officially dead, Executive Director Ursula Price told the Herald ...
Model family fallout shelter at an Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization fair exhibit, 1960. The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, created in 1958 originally as Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, was an office of the Executive Office of the President of the United States which consolidated the functions of the existing Office of Defense Mobilization and the Federal Civil ...