Center for Advanced Public Safety

University of Alabama

Allen ParrishUniversity of Alabama, Center for Advanced Public Safety

Center for Advanced Public Safety

• Headcount = 77– 4 faculty members– 53 staff members– 20 students

University of Alabama

Current Headcount Statistics

New Hires in Past Month

• Louise Costley - Converted from TekSystems to full-time UA staff – Business Analyst - works in HSV office

• Dr. Laura Myers - Research Social Scientist – in process of hiring

• Craig Thorstens – Tek Systems – developer – will start in Huntsville in Jan.

New Student Hires in Past Month

• Three new students have been hired recently and will start working at CAPS in January:– Johnathan Snyder developer for Matthew’s team – Tarif Haque will be working approximately 10 hours/a week

with the Android mobile app team– Weston Jones – developer for Chris Sims’ group

Current News• Montgomery:

– Law enforcement consolidation– IT consolidation

• Our response:– Continue to be supportive of our projects– Try to stay out of the politics– Innovate, focus and diversify!

Innovate, Focus and Diversify• Innovate:

– New products and technologies– Mobile applications– CARE/ADVANCE – Data analytics

• Focus:– Try to play to our strengths and ignore other things– We have to fight the tendency to want to do everything

• Diversify:– Other state markets besides Alabama– New markets for specific strong innovations

Security• Two recent breaches of state data systems• Lots of data in our trust:

– Responsible to the public– Liability issues

• We have to increase our vigilance and strengthen our overall digital security:– AlaData – Production data center– Local machines and servers

• Matthew and Beau are going to discuss some specifics