Southern New Hampshire University CJ 310 Module Three Practice Activity Template
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Name of Legislation
Purpose of Legislation
Effectiveness of Legislation
The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 Enacted on October 26th, 2001
The purpose of this legislation is to deter and This legislation was extremely effective since punish terrorist acts in the United States and it provided law enforcement with entirely around the world, to enhance law enforcement new methods of evaluating people and investigatory tools, and for other purposes identifying those who might be responsible ("USA PATRIOT Act, n.d.). for plotting a terrorist attack in the future. By combatting terrorism and identifying the financial backers of terrorist acts as well as locating and apprehending terrorists, this legislation improved the safety of U.S. civilians. The Department of Homeland Security Act of The purpose of this legislation is to prevent This legislation not only established a new 2002 terrorist attacks within the United States. institution charged with protecting the Enacted on November 25th, 2002 reduce the vulnerability of the United States to country, but it also established a new cabinet- terrorism, and minimize damage and assist in level representative for the President. This recovery for terrorist attacks that occur in the legislation established a framework for United States (AHIMA, 2010). appropriately organizing and operating homeland security functions from a single institution. For instance, the DHS has been in charge of preventing innumerable terrorist attacks against the United States since 9/11 and has gained knowledge from those that do occur. The USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 The purpose of this legislation was to update, This legislation not only gave more up-to- Enacted on June 2nd, 2015 modify, or eliminate the prior provisions of the date terms for dealing with terrorism USA PATRIOT Act (Martin, 2019). This prevention, but it also addressed a key safety legislation was enacted in response to an issue among U.S. citizens. As a result of this incident that occurred in 2013 when Edward legislation, U.S. citizens were made more Snowden exposed information revealing that aware of the violation of their privacy rights the NSA engaged in bulk data collection of and were able to act to better protect their telecommunications records, telephone privacy. records, and internet metadata (Martin, 2019)
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References
AHIMA. (2010, November). Homeland security act, Patriot Act, Freedom of Information Act, and him - retired. https://bok.ahima.org/doc? oid=106172#.Y3BAIWnMI2w
Martin, G. (2019). Understanding Homeland Security (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc. (US) https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9781544355825
USA PATRIOT Act. USA PATRIOT Act | FinCEN.gov. (n.d.). https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/usa-patriot-