This self-paced course is designed to augment and reinforce the information provided in the COOP Planning Guide. It includes presentations by court professionals who are experts in emergency management preparedness - many as a result of facing an emergency themselves. The presenters include:
Introduction
Zygmont A. Pines
Court Administrator
Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts
Unit 1: COOP Planning Process
Honorable John Cleland
President Judge
McKean County Courthouse
Smethport, PA
Unit 2: Essential Functions
Greg Cowan
Assistant Courts Director
Leon County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Tallahassee, FL
Unit 3: Succession Orders and Delegation of Authorities
Honorable John Cleland
President Judge
McKean County Courthouse
Smethport, PA
Unit 4: Alternate Facilities
Sheila Sims
Cheif Deputy Court Administrator
Pensacola, Florida
Unit 5: Business Practices
Daniel D. Stier, JD
Senior Public Health Analyst
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Unit 6: Communications
Craig Waters
Communications Counsel
Florida Supreme Court
Unit 7: Vital Records and Databases
Peter Haas
Director of Technology
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Unit 8: Resources for Human Capital
Bob Wessels
Court Manager
County Courts at Law
Harris County, TX
Unit 9: Prepare Drive-Away Kits/Plan Devolution Process
Cynthia Easterling
Court Support Services Administrator
North Carolina AOC
Unit 10: Activation, Alert & Notification, & Tranisition to Alternate Facility
Marcus Reinkensmeyer
Court Administrator
Maricopa County, AZ
Unit 11: Procedures for Alternate Facility Operations, Reconstitution, & Pandemics
Malcom Franklin
Senior Manager Emergency
Response and Security
California AOC
Unit 12: Testing Training, & Exercises (including separate presentation on pandemic issues)
Cynthia Easterling
Court Support Services Administrator
North Carolina AOC
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CLICK HERE to watch video of Peter Haas, Director of Technology for the Louisiana Supreme Court and Hurricane Katrina survivor, discuss the importance of COOP planning.
The course is free and offered in WebCT, an asynchronous (you can view it at any time), online learning platform. All you need is a username and password to access the materials. We will provide you with these once you register for the course. To register, click here.
The NCSC is grateful to all the presenters who so generously gave of their time and expertise in the production of this resource. We also thank the Bureau of Justice Assistance for their support (through Grant No. 2006-MU-BX-K019) of the development of the COOP Planning Guide, the online course, and this Web site. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Points of view or opinions in any of the project products are those of the authors and presenters and do not represent the official position or policies of the United States Department of Justice. |
