How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012?
Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this bubble of false hope will not last for long. The long-term trends that are ripping our economy and our financial system to shreds continue unabated. When you step back and look at the broader picture, it is hard to deny that we are in really bad shape and that things are rapidly getting worse.
Later on in this article you will find a list of interesting facts that show the true state of the U.S. economy. Hopefully many of you will find this list to be a useful tool that you can share with your family and friends. Each day the foundations of our economy crumble a little bit more, and we need to wake up as many Americans as we can to what is really going on while there is still time.
We have accumulated way too much debt, we consume far more wealth than we produce, millions of our jobs are being shipped overseas, our big cities are decaying, family budgets are being squeezed more than ever, poverty is rampant and we have raised several generations of Americans that expect the government to fix all of their problems.
The U.S. economy is at a crossroads, and the decisions that the American people make in 2012 are going to be incredibly important.
The statistics listed below are presented without much commentary. They pretty much speak for themselves.
After reading this list, it will be hard for anyone to argue that we are on the right track.
The following are 55 interesting facts about the U.S. economy in 2012....
#1 As you read this, there are more than 6 million mortgages in the United States that are overdue.
#2 In January, U.S. home prices were the lowest that they have been in more than a decade.
#3 In Florida right now, some drivers are paying nearly 6 dollars for a gallon of gas.
#4 On average, you could buy about 10 gallons of gas for an hour of work back in the mid-90s. Today, the average hour of work will get you less than 6 gallons of gas.
#5 Sadly, 43 percent of all American families spend more than they earn each year.
#6 According to Gallup, the unemployment rate was at 8.3% in mid-January but rose to 9.0% in mid-February.
#7 The percentage of working age Americans that have jobs is not increasing. The employment to population ratio has stayed very steady (hovering between 58% and 59%) since the beginning of 2010.
#8 If you gathered together all of the workers that are "officially" unemployed in the United States into one nation, they would constitute the 68th largest country in the entire world.
#9 When Barack Obama first took office, the number of "long-term unemployed workers" in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number is sitting at 5.6 million.
#10 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is hovering close to an all-time record high.
#11 According to Reuters, approximately 23.7 million American workers are either unemployed or underemployed right now.
#12 There are about 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high.
#13 According to CareerBuilder, only 23 percent of American companies plan to hire more employees in 2012.
#14 Back in the year 2000, about 20 percent of all jobs in America were manufacturing jobs. Today, about 5 percent of all jobs in America are manufacturing jobs.
#15 The United States has lost an average of approximately 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
#16 Amazingly, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since 2001.
17 According to author Paul Osterman, about 20 percent of all U.S. adults are currently working jobs that pay poverty-level wages.
#18 During the Obama administration, worker health insurance costs have risen by 23 percent.
#19 An all-time record 49.9 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all at this point, and the percentage of Americans covered by employer-based health plans has fallen for 11 years in a row.
#20 According to the New York Times, approximately 100 million Americans are either living in poverty or in "the fretful zone just above it".
#21 In the United States today, corporate profits are at an all-time high. The percentage of Americans that are living in "extreme poverty" is also at an all-time high according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
#22 In the United States today, the wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
#23 The poorest 50 percent of all Americans now collectively own just 2.5% of all the wealth in the United States.
#24 The number of children living in poverty in the state of California has increased by 30 percent since 2007.
#25 According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 36.4% of all children that live in Philadelphia are living in poverty, 40.1% of all children that live in Atlanta are living in poverty, 52.6% of all children that live in Cleveland are living in poverty and 53.6% of all children that live in Detroit are living in poverty.
#26 Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has increased from 32 million to 46 million.
#27 As the economy has slowed down, so has the number of marriages. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, only 51 percent of all Americans that are at least 18 years old are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all U.S. adults were married.
#28 In 1984, the median net worth of households led by someone 65 or older was 10 times larger than the median net worth of households led by someone 35 or younger. Today, the median net worth of households led by someone 65 or older is 47 times larger than the median net worth of households led by someone 35 or younger.
#29 If you can believe it, 37 percent of all U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 35 have a net worth of zero or less than zero.
#30 After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.
#31 According to the Student Loan Debt Clock, total student loan debt in the United States will surpass the 1 trillion dollar mark at some point in 2012. If you went out right now and starting spending one dollar every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years to spend one trillion dollars.
#32 Today, 46% of all Americans carry a credit card balance from month to month.
#33 Incredibly, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
#34 The average interest rate on a credit card that is carrying a balance is now up to 13.10 percent.
#35 Of the U.S. households that do have credit card debt, the average amount of credit card debt is an astounding $15,799.
#36 Overall, Americans are carrying a grand total of $798 billion in credit card debt. If you were alive when Jesus was born and you spent a million dollars every single day since then, you still would not have spent $798 billion by now.
#37 It may be hard to believe, but the truth is that consumer debt in America has increased by a whopping 1700% since 1971.
#38 At this point, about 70 percent of all auto purchases in the United States involve an auto loan.
#39 In the United States today, 45 percent of all auto loans are made to subprime borrowers.
#40 Mortgage debt as a percentage of GDP has more than tripled since 1955.
#41 According to a recent study conducted by the BlackRock Investment Institute, the ratio of household debt to personal income in the United States is now 154 percent.
#42 To get the same purchasing power that you got out of $20.00 back in 1970 you would have to have more than $116 today.
#43 When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today an ounce of gold costs more than $1700 an ounce.
#44 The number of Americans that are not paying federal incomes taxes is at an all-time high.
#45 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that receives some form of government benefits. Back in 1983, that number was below 30 percent.
#46 The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.
#47 During 2012, the U.S. government must roll over nearly 3 trillion dollars of old debt.
#48 The U.S. debt to GDP ratio has now reached 101 percent.
#49 At the moment, the U.S. national debt is sitting at a grand total of $15,419,800,222,325.15.
#50 The U.S. national debt is now more than 22 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president.
#51 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.
#52 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over 440,000 years to pay off the national debt.
#53 If Bill Gates gave every single penny of his fortune to the U.S. government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for about 15 days.
#54 Right now, the U.S. national debt is increasing by about 150 million dollars every single hour!!!!!!!!!!!!
#55 Spending by the federal government accounted for about 2 percent of GDP back in 1800. It accounted for 23.8 percent in 2011, and according to former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, it will account for 36.8 percent of GDP by 2040.
Bad news, eh?
But it isn't just our economy that is decaying.
We are witnessing a tremendous amount of social decay as well. As I wrote about the other day, America is rapidly decomposing right in front of our eyes.
When the water level of a river drops far enough, it will reveal rocks that have been hidden from view for a very long time. Well, a similar thing is happening in America right now. For decades, our debt-fueled prosperity has masked a lot of the social decay that has been going on.
But now that our prosperity is evaporating, a lot of frightening stuff is being revealed.
Unfortunately, another major financial crisis is rapidly approaching and economic conditions in the United States are going to get a lot worse.
So what is our country going to look like when that happens?
That is a very good question.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Fusion Center Locations Revealed
Fusion Center Locations Revealed
Since 9/11, the U.S. Government has engaged in a multibillion-dollar effort to construct a domestic intelligence network for the ostensible purpose of combating terrorism, criminal activity and violent extremism. One of the central components of this system is the network of “fusion centers” that have sprung up around the country over the last several years. These entities integrate local law enforcement with a state’s police force, Department of Justice, or Office of Emergency Management and are designed to facilitate law enforcement intelligence activities throughout the jurisdiction, providing federal authorities access to local information and databases, while simultaneously allowing federal agencies to disseminate classified intelligence materials to local authorities. There are almost always federal representatives present in local fusion centers and Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano has recently testified that DHS is “committed to having an officer in each fusion center.” Most fusion centers also work with representatives of the private sector, particularly those industries related to so-called “critical infrastructure and key resources.”
Due to past examples of fusion centers vastly overstepping their original mandates, including monitoring political events, bumper sticker preferences and even constitutionally-protected protest activities, many civil-rights organizations have worked to monitor fusion centers and their activities. However, public scrutiny has proved difficult in most cases as the majority of fusion centers operate in a highly secretive manner without revealing who works for them, what government agencies they work with or what their basic capabilities are. Many lack websites or any sort of public presence and information about their activities is often unavailable from official sources. There is no national authority overseeing their activities and many fusion centers even lack basic privacy policies concerning the collection of information on law-abiding citizens. Some states have even worked to exempt fusion center activities from public records requests. In fact, the majority of fusion centers have failed to even identify their most basic attribute: their physical location. Instead, many fusion centers simply provide a mailing address that leads to a post office box or generic government building. Some fusion centers do not even provide an address.
Public Intelligence has acquired a dataset that identifies the actual physical locations of nearly all of the 72 DHS-recognized fusion centers operating in the country today. The information, which includes physical addresses, phone numbers, as well as email addresses for all of the fusion centers, is believed to have been compiled and distributed throughout the Homeland Security Information Network, a government information portal for “information sharing and collaboration between federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector, and international partners engaged in the homeland security mission.” Given the incomplete nature of information distributed previously by EPIC, the ACLU, and other groups attempting to document fusion center activities, this information is of great importance for working towards transparency in an area of domestic surveillance that remains largely unreported.
Alabama Alabama Fusion Center Post Office Box 1511 Montgomery, AL 36102 201 S Union St Montgomery, AL 36104 (334) 517-2660 fusioncenter@afc.alacop.gov
Alaska Alaska Information and Analysis Center (AKIAC) 101 East Sixth Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 101 East Sixth Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 (907) 265-8123 akiac@alaska.gov
Arizona Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC) Post Office Box 6638 Phoenix, AZ 85005 16212 N 28th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85053 (877) 272-8329 actic@azdps.gov
Arkansas Arkansas State Fusion Center 1 State Police Plaza Drive Little Rock, AR 72209 1 State Police Plaza Drive Little Rock, AR 72209 arfusioncenter@asp.arkansas.gov
California Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center 2644 Santiago Canyon Road Silverado, CA 92676-9791 2644 Santiago Canyon Road Silverado, CA 92676-9791 (714) 628-3024 ociac@ocsd.org
California Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center (LAJRIC) 12440 East Imperial Highway Norwalk, CA 90650 12440 East Imperial Highway Norwalk, CA 90650 (562) 345-1100 jric@lajric.gov
California Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) P.O. Box 36102 San Francisco, CA 94102 450 Golden Gate Ave., 14th Floor San Francisco, CA 94102 (866) 367-8847 dutyofficer@ncric.org
California Central California Intelligence Center/Sacramento Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center 3720 Dudley Blvd. McClellan, CA 95652 (888) 884-8383 sacrttac@sacsheriff.com
California State Terror Threat Assessment Center Post Office Box 944255 Sacramento, CA 94244 3741 Bleckley St. Mather, CA 95655 (916) 227-1280 ohsdutyanalyst@ohs.ca.gov
California San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center (SD-LECC) 4181 Ruffin Road San Diego, CA 92123 (858) 495-7200 rttac@sdrttac.org
Colorado Colorado Information Analysis Center 690 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215 690 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215 (877) 509-2422 ciac@ciac.co.gov
Connecticut Connecticut Intelligence Center (CTIC) 600 State Street New Haven, CT 06511 600 State Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 777-6311 ctic@nespin.riss.net
Delaware Delaware Information Analysis Center Post Office Box 430 Dover, DE 19904 1575 McKee Rd. Dover, DE 19904 (302) 739-5996 diac@state.de.us
District of Columbia Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center 2720 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20032 300 Indiana Ave NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 481-3007 wrtac@dc.gov
Florida Florida Fusion Center P.O. Box 1489 Tallahassee, FL 32302 2331 Phillips Road Tallahassee, FL 32308 (850) 410-7645 floridafusioncenter@fdle.state.fl.us
Florida Miami Dade Fusion Center 11200 NW 20th St Doral, FL 33172 (305) 470-3880 ioc@mdpd.com
Florida Central Florida Intelligence Exchange (CFIX) PO Box 608423 Orlando, Florida 32860 6643 Hazeltine National Drive Orlando, FL 32860 ctic@fdle.state.fl.us
Georgia Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center (GISAC) Post Office Box 29649 Atlanta, GA 30359 2635 Century Parkway, N.E. Atlanta, GA 39345 (404) 486-6420 generalinfo@gisac.gbi.ga.gov
Hawaii Pacific Regional Information Clearinghouse 500 Ala Moana Blvd. Honolulu, HI 96813 500 Ala Moana Blvd. Honolulu, HI 96813 (800) 952-5258 pacclear@hi.hidta.net
Idaho Idaho Criminal Intelligence Center 700 S Stratford Dr, Meridian, Ada, Idaho 83642 700 S Stratford Dr, Meridian, Ada, Idaho 83642 (208) 846-7676 icic@fusion.idaho.gov
Illinois Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center (STIC) 2100 S. Dirksen Parkway Springfield, IL 62703 2100 S. Dirksen Parkway Springfield, IL 62703 (877) 455-7842 stic@isp.state.il.us
Indiana Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center 302 W. Washington Street Room E243 Indianapolis, IN 46204 302 W. Washington Street Room E243 Indianapolis, IN 46204 (866) 400-4432 iifc@iifc.in.gov
Iowa Iowa Fusion Center 215 East 7th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50319 215 East 7th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50319 (800) 308-5983 inthsin@dps.state.ia.us
Kansas Kansas Threat Integration Center (KSTIC) 2722 Southwest Topeka Blvd Topeka, KS 66611 2722 Southwest Topeka Blvd Topeka, KS 66611 (785) 2741503 kstic@tag.ks.gov
Kentucky Kentucky Fusion Center Post Office Box 1757 Frankfort, KY 40602 200 Mero St Frankfort, KY 40622 (502) 564-2081 fusioncenter@ky.gov
Louisiana Louisiana State Analytical and Fusion Exchange (LA-SAFE) 376A East Airport, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 376A East Airport, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (225) 925-1978 lafusion.center@dps.la.gov
Maine Maine Intelligence Analysis Center 45 Commerce Drive, Suite 1 Augusta, ME 04330 164 State House Station Augusta, ME 04330 (207) 624-7280 miac@nespin.riss.net
Maryland Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC) 7125 Ambassador Road Woodlawn, MD 21244 (800) 492-8477 mdwatch@leo.gov
Massachusetts Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) One Schroeder Plaza Roxbury, MA 2120 (617) 353-4328 bric.bpd@ci.boston.ma.us
Massachusetts Commonwealth Fusion Center 124 Acton Street, 2d Floor Maynard, MA 01754 124 Acton Street, 2d Floor Maynard, MA 01754 (978) 451-3700 fusion@pol.state.ma.us
Michigan Michigan Intelligence Operations Center 714 S. Harrison Road East Lansing, MI 48823 (877) 616-4677 mioc@michigan.gov
Michigan Detroit Southeast Michigan Information and Intelligence Center 28 Adams Ave E Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 976-4625
Minnesota Minnesota Joint Analytical Center Suite 820 111 Washington Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55401 (612) 373-2840 info@icefishx.org
Mississippi Mississippi Analysis and Information Center 1 MEMA Drive Pearl, MS 39208 1 MEMA Drive Pearl, MS 39208 (601) 933-7200 msaic@mdps.state.ms.us
Missouri KC Regional TEW 635 Woodland Ave., Suite 2105B Kansas City, MO 64106 635 Woodland Ave., Suite 2105B Kansas City, MO 64106 (816) 889-6130 KCTEW@kcpd.org
Missouri Missouri Information Analysis Center 2302 Militia Drive Jefferson City, MO 65101 (866) 362-6422 miac@mshp.dps.mo.gov
Missouri St. Louis Terrorism Early Warning Group 7900 Forsyth Blvd St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 615-4839 info@sltew.org
Montana Montana All-Threat Intelligence Center (MATIC) Post Office Box 4789 Ft. Harrison, MT 59636 2225 11th Ave Helena, MT 59601 (406) 444-1330 dojintel@mt.gov
Nebraska Nebraska Information Analysis Center 3800 NW 12th St Lincoln, NE 68521 (402) 479-4099 nefusioncenter@nebraska.gov
Nevada Nevada Threat Analysis Center 555 Wright Way Carson City, NV 89711 2478 Fairview Drive Carson City, NV 89701 (775) 687-0450 ntac@dps.state.nv.us
Nevada Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center 6767 Spencer Street, Las Vegas Nevada 89119 6767 Spencer Street, Las Vegas Nevada (702) 828-2200 doc@lvmpd.com
New Hampshire New Hampshire Information and Analysis Center 110 Smokey Bear Blvd Concord, NH 03305 (603) 271-0300 NhspIntel@dos.nh.gov
New Jersey New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center Post Office Box 7068 West Trenton, NJ 08628-0068 2 Schwarzkopf Drive West Trenton, NJ 08628 (866) 472-3365 roic@gw.njsp.org
New Mexico New Mexico All Source Intelligence Center (NMASIC) PO Box 27111 87502 13 Bataan Blvd., Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 476-9600 intelligence.fusion@state.nm.us
New York New York State Intelligence Center 630 Columbia Street Extension Latham, NY 12110 630 Columbia Street Extension Latham, NY 12110 (866) 723-3697 ciu@nysic.ny.gov
North Carolina North Carolina Information Sharing and Analysis Center 310 New Bern Ave. Raleigh, NC 27601 (888) 624-7222 ncisaac@ncdoj.gov
North Dakota North Dakota State and Local Intelligence Center 400 Fraine Barracks Rd Bismarck, ND 58506 (866) 885-8295 ndslic@nd.gov
Ohio Cincinnati/Hamilton Regional Terrorism Early Warning Group 2000 Radcliff Drive Cincinnati, OH 45204 (513) 263-8000 saic@dps.state.oh.us
Ohio Strategic Analysis and Information Center 2855 West Dublin Grandville Road Columbus, OH 43235 2855 West Dublin Grandville Road Columbus, OH 43235 (614) 799-3555 saic@dps.state.oh.us
Oklahoma Oklahoma Information Fusion Center 6600 N Harvey Oklahoma City, OK 73116 6600 N Harvey Oklahoma City, OK 73116 (405) 848-6724 fusion@osbi.ok.gov
Oregon Terrorism Fusion Center (TITAN) 610 Hawthorne Ave., Suite 210 Salem, OR 97301 610 Hawthorne Ave., Suite 210 Salem, OR 97301 (503) 378-6347 oregonfusioncenter@doj.state.or.us
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center (PaCIC) 1800 Elmerton Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17110 1800 Elmerton Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17110 sp-intelligence@state.pa.us
Rhode Island Rhode Island State Fusion Center 10 Dorrance St Providence, RI 02903 (866) 490-8477 fusion@risp.dps.ri.gov
South Carolina South Carolina Intelligence and Information Center 1731 Bush River Road, Columbia, SC 29210 (866) 472-8477 sciic@sled.sc.gov
South Dakota South Dakota Fusion Center 1302 US 14 Pierre, SD 57501 (605) 773-3178 sdfusioncenter@state.sd.us
Tennessee Tennessee Regional Information Center 901 R.S. Gass Boulevard Nashville, TN 37243 (877) 250-2333 tfc@tn.gov
Texas Houston Regional Intelligence Service Center 5320 N. Shepherd Drive Houston, TX 77091 (713) 884-4710 cidcdu@leo.gov
Texas North Central Texas Fusion Center 4300 Community Avenue McKinney, TX 75071 4300 Community Avenue McKinney, TX 75071 (972) 548-5537 homelandsecurity@co.collin.tx.us
Texas Texas Intelligence Center 5805 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78752 (866) 786-5972 txdpsintelcenter@txdps.state.tx.us
Utah Statewide Information & Analysis Center (SIAC) 410 West 9800 South, Suite 370 Sandy, Utah 84070 410 West 9800 South, Suite 370 Sandy, Utah 84070 (801) 256-2360 saic@utah.gov
Vermont Vermont Fusion Center 188 Harvest Lane Williston, VT 09405 188 Harvest Lane Williston, VT 09405 (802) 872-6110 vtfusion@dps.state.vt.us
Virginia National Capital Region Intelligence Center 4100 Chain Bridge Road Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 212-4590 fcpd-ncric@fairfaxcounty.gov
Virginia Virginia Fusion Center 7700 Midlothian Turnpike Richmond, VA 23235 (804) 674-2196 vfc@vsp.virginia.gov
Washington Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC) Post Office Box 42600 Olympia, WA 98504 1110 Third Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 (877) 843-9522 wafusion@wsp.wa.gov
Wisconsin Southeastern Wisconsin Terrorism Alert Center 749 West State St Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 935-7767 ifc@milwaukee.gov
Wisconsin Wisconsin Statewide Intelligence Center Post Office Box 7857 Madison, WI 53707-7857 2445 Darwin Rd Madison, WI 53703 (608) 242-5393 wsic@doj.state.wi.us
Wyoming Wyoming Criminal Intelligence Center 316 West 22 Street Cheyenne, WY 82002 (307) 777-7181 klandm@dci.wyo.gov
Since 9/11, the U.S. Government has engaged in a multibillion-dollar effort to construct a domestic intelligence network for the ostensible purpose of combating terrorism, criminal activity and violent extremism. One of the central components of this system is the network of “fusion centers” that have sprung up around the country over the last several years. These entities integrate local law enforcement with a state’s police force, Department of Justice, or Office of Emergency Management and are designed to facilitate law enforcement intelligence activities throughout the jurisdiction, providing federal authorities access to local information and databases, while simultaneously allowing federal agencies to disseminate classified intelligence materials to local authorities. There are almost always federal representatives present in local fusion centers and Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano has recently testified that DHS is “committed to having an officer in each fusion center.” Most fusion centers also work with representatives of the private sector, particularly those industries related to so-called “critical infrastructure and key resources.”
Due to past examples of fusion centers vastly overstepping their original mandates, including monitoring political events, bumper sticker preferences and even constitutionally-protected protest activities, many civil-rights organizations have worked to monitor fusion centers and their activities. However, public scrutiny has proved difficult in most cases as the majority of fusion centers operate in a highly secretive manner without revealing who works for them, what government agencies they work with or what their basic capabilities are. Many lack websites or any sort of public presence and information about their activities is often unavailable from official sources. There is no national authority overseeing their activities and many fusion centers even lack basic privacy policies concerning the collection of information on law-abiding citizens. Some states have even worked to exempt fusion center activities from public records requests. In fact, the majority of fusion centers have failed to even identify their most basic attribute: their physical location. Instead, many fusion centers simply provide a mailing address that leads to a post office box or generic government building. Some fusion centers do not even provide an address.
Public Intelligence has acquired a dataset that identifies the actual physical locations of nearly all of the 72 DHS-recognized fusion centers operating in the country today. The information, which includes physical addresses, phone numbers, as well as email addresses for all of the fusion centers, is believed to have been compiled and distributed throughout the Homeland Security Information Network, a government information portal for “information sharing and collaboration between federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector, and international partners engaged in the homeland security mission.” Given the incomplete nature of information distributed previously by EPIC, the ACLU, and other groups attempting to document fusion center activities, this information is of great importance for working towards transparency in an area of domestic surveillance that remains largely unreported.
Alabama Alabama Fusion Center Post Office Box 1511 Montgomery, AL 36102 201 S Union St Montgomery, AL 36104 (334) 517-2660 fusioncenter@afc.alacop.gov
Alaska Alaska Information and Analysis Center (AKIAC) 101 East Sixth Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 101 East Sixth Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 (907) 265-8123 akiac@alaska.gov
Arizona Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC) Post Office Box 6638 Phoenix, AZ 85005 16212 N 28th Ave Phoenix, AZ 85053 (877) 272-8329 actic@azdps.gov
Arkansas Arkansas State Fusion Center 1 State Police Plaza Drive Little Rock, AR 72209 1 State Police Plaza Drive Little Rock, AR 72209 arfusioncenter@asp.arkansas.gov
California Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center 2644 Santiago Canyon Road Silverado, CA 92676-9791 2644 Santiago Canyon Road Silverado, CA 92676-9791 (714) 628-3024 ociac@ocsd.org
California Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center (LAJRIC) 12440 East Imperial Highway Norwalk, CA 90650 12440 East Imperial Highway Norwalk, CA 90650 (562) 345-1100 jric@lajric.gov
California Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) P.O. Box 36102 San Francisco, CA 94102 450 Golden Gate Ave., 14th Floor San Francisco, CA 94102 (866) 367-8847 dutyofficer@ncric.org
California Central California Intelligence Center/Sacramento Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center 3720 Dudley Blvd. McClellan, CA 95652 (888) 884-8383 sacrttac@sacsheriff.com
California State Terror Threat Assessment Center Post Office Box 944255 Sacramento, CA 94244 3741 Bleckley St. Mather, CA 95655 (916) 227-1280 ohsdutyanalyst@ohs.ca.gov
California San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center (SD-LECC) 4181 Ruffin Road San Diego, CA 92123 (858) 495-7200 rttac@sdrttac.org
Colorado Colorado Information Analysis Center 690 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215 690 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215 (877) 509-2422 ciac@ciac.co.gov
Connecticut Connecticut Intelligence Center (CTIC) 600 State Street New Haven, CT 06511 600 State Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 777-6311 ctic@nespin.riss.net
Delaware Delaware Information Analysis Center Post Office Box 430 Dover, DE 19904 1575 McKee Rd. Dover, DE 19904 (302) 739-5996 diac@state.de.us
District of Columbia Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center 2720 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20032 300 Indiana Ave NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 481-3007 wrtac@dc.gov
Florida Florida Fusion Center P.O. Box 1489 Tallahassee, FL 32302 2331 Phillips Road Tallahassee, FL 32308 (850) 410-7645 floridafusioncenter@fdle.state.fl.us
Florida Miami Dade Fusion Center 11200 NW 20th St Doral, FL 33172 (305) 470-3880 ioc@mdpd.com
Florida Central Florida Intelligence Exchange (CFIX) PO Box 608423 Orlando, Florida 32860 6643 Hazeltine National Drive Orlando, FL 32860 ctic@fdle.state.fl.us
Georgia Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center (GISAC) Post Office Box 29649 Atlanta, GA 30359 2635 Century Parkway, N.E. Atlanta, GA 39345 (404) 486-6420 generalinfo@gisac.gbi.ga.gov
Hawaii Pacific Regional Information Clearinghouse 500 Ala Moana Blvd. Honolulu, HI 96813 500 Ala Moana Blvd. Honolulu, HI 96813 (800) 952-5258 pacclear@hi.hidta.net
Idaho Idaho Criminal Intelligence Center 700 S Stratford Dr, Meridian, Ada, Idaho 83642 700 S Stratford Dr, Meridian, Ada, Idaho 83642 (208) 846-7676 icic@fusion.idaho.gov
Illinois Statewide Terrorism & Intelligence Center (STIC) 2100 S. Dirksen Parkway Springfield, IL 62703 2100 S. Dirksen Parkway Springfield, IL 62703 (877) 455-7842 stic@isp.state.il.us
Indiana Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center 302 W. Washington Street Room E243 Indianapolis, IN 46204 302 W. Washington Street Room E243 Indianapolis, IN 46204 (866) 400-4432 iifc@iifc.in.gov
Iowa Iowa Fusion Center 215 East 7th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50319 215 East 7th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50319 (800) 308-5983 inthsin@dps.state.ia.us
Kansas Kansas Threat Integration Center (KSTIC) 2722 Southwest Topeka Blvd Topeka, KS 66611 2722 Southwest Topeka Blvd Topeka, KS 66611 (785) 2741503 kstic@tag.ks.gov
Kentucky Kentucky Fusion Center Post Office Box 1757 Frankfort, KY 40602 200 Mero St Frankfort, KY 40622 (502) 564-2081 fusioncenter@ky.gov
Louisiana Louisiana State Analytical and Fusion Exchange (LA-SAFE) 376A East Airport, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 376A East Airport, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 (225) 925-1978 lafusion.center@dps.la.gov
Maine Maine Intelligence Analysis Center 45 Commerce Drive, Suite 1 Augusta, ME 04330 164 State House Station Augusta, ME 04330 (207) 624-7280 miac@nespin.riss.net
Maryland Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC) 7125 Ambassador Road Woodlawn, MD 21244 (800) 492-8477 mdwatch@leo.gov
Massachusetts Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) One Schroeder Plaza Roxbury, MA 2120 (617) 353-4328 bric.bpd@ci.boston.ma.us
Massachusetts Commonwealth Fusion Center 124 Acton Street, 2d Floor Maynard, MA 01754 124 Acton Street, 2d Floor Maynard, MA 01754 (978) 451-3700 fusion@pol.state.ma.us
Michigan Michigan Intelligence Operations Center 714 S. Harrison Road East Lansing, MI 48823 (877) 616-4677 mioc@michigan.gov
Michigan Detroit Southeast Michigan Information and Intelligence Center 28 Adams Ave E Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 976-4625
Minnesota Minnesota Joint Analytical Center Suite 820 111 Washington Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55401 (612) 373-2840 info@icefishx.org
Mississippi Mississippi Analysis and Information Center 1 MEMA Drive Pearl, MS 39208 1 MEMA Drive Pearl, MS 39208 (601) 933-7200 msaic@mdps.state.ms.us
Missouri KC Regional TEW 635 Woodland Ave., Suite 2105B Kansas City, MO 64106 635 Woodland Ave., Suite 2105B Kansas City, MO 64106 (816) 889-6130 KCTEW@kcpd.org
Missouri Missouri Information Analysis Center 2302 Militia Drive Jefferson City, MO 65101 (866) 362-6422 miac@mshp.dps.mo.gov
Missouri St. Louis Terrorism Early Warning Group 7900 Forsyth Blvd St. Louis, MO 63105 (314) 615-4839 info@sltew.org
Montana Montana All-Threat Intelligence Center (MATIC) Post Office Box 4789 Ft. Harrison, MT 59636 2225 11th Ave Helena, MT 59601 (406) 444-1330 dojintel@mt.gov
Nebraska Nebraska Information Analysis Center 3800 NW 12th St Lincoln, NE 68521 (402) 479-4099 nefusioncenter@nebraska.gov
Nevada Nevada Threat Analysis Center 555 Wright Way Carson City, NV 89711 2478 Fairview Drive Carson City, NV 89701 (775) 687-0450 ntac@dps.state.nv.us
Nevada Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center 6767 Spencer Street, Las Vegas Nevada 89119 6767 Spencer Street, Las Vegas Nevada (702) 828-2200 doc@lvmpd.com
New Hampshire New Hampshire Information and Analysis Center 110 Smokey Bear Blvd Concord, NH 03305 (603) 271-0300 NhspIntel@dos.nh.gov
New Jersey New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center Post Office Box 7068 West Trenton, NJ 08628-0068 2 Schwarzkopf Drive West Trenton, NJ 08628 (866) 472-3365 roic@gw.njsp.org
New Mexico New Mexico All Source Intelligence Center (NMASIC) PO Box 27111 87502 13 Bataan Blvd., Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 476-9600 intelligence.fusion@state.nm.us
New York New York State Intelligence Center 630 Columbia Street Extension Latham, NY 12110 630 Columbia Street Extension Latham, NY 12110 (866) 723-3697 ciu@nysic.ny.gov
North Carolina North Carolina Information Sharing and Analysis Center 310 New Bern Ave. Raleigh, NC 27601 (888) 624-7222 ncisaac@ncdoj.gov
North Dakota North Dakota State and Local Intelligence Center 400 Fraine Barracks Rd Bismarck, ND 58506 (866) 885-8295 ndslic@nd.gov
Ohio Cincinnati/Hamilton Regional Terrorism Early Warning Group 2000 Radcliff Drive Cincinnati, OH 45204 (513) 263-8000 saic@dps.state.oh.us
Ohio Strategic Analysis and Information Center 2855 West Dublin Grandville Road Columbus, OH 43235 2855 West Dublin Grandville Road Columbus, OH 43235 (614) 799-3555 saic@dps.state.oh.us
Oklahoma Oklahoma Information Fusion Center 6600 N Harvey Oklahoma City, OK 73116 6600 N Harvey Oklahoma City, OK 73116 (405) 848-6724 fusion@osbi.ok.gov
Oregon Terrorism Fusion Center (TITAN) 610 Hawthorne Ave., Suite 210 Salem, OR 97301 610 Hawthorne Ave., Suite 210 Salem, OR 97301 (503) 378-6347 oregonfusioncenter@doj.state.or.us
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center (PaCIC) 1800 Elmerton Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17110 1800 Elmerton Avenue Harrisburg, PA 17110 sp-intelligence@state.pa.us
Rhode Island Rhode Island State Fusion Center 10 Dorrance St Providence, RI 02903 (866) 490-8477 fusion@risp.dps.ri.gov
South Carolina South Carolina Intelligence and Information Center 1731 Bush River Road, Columbia, SC 29210 (866) 472-8477 sciic@sled.sc.gov
South Dakota South Dakota Fusion Center 1302 US 14 Pierre, SD 57501 (605) 773-3178 sdfusioncenter@state.sd.us
Tennessee Tennessee Regional Information Center 901 R.S. Gass Boulevard Nashville, TN 37243 (877) 250-2333 tfc@tn.gov
Texas Houston Regional Intelligence Service Center 5320 N. Shepherd Drive Houston, TX 77091 (713) 884-4710 cidcdu@leo.gov
Texas North Central Texas Fusion Center 4300 Community Avenue McKinney, TX 75071 4300 Community Avenue McKinney, TX 75071 (972) 548-5537 homelandsecurity@co.collin.tx.us
Texas Texas Intelligence Center 5805 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78752 (866) 786-5972 txdpsintelcenter@txdps.state.tx.us
Utah Statewide Information & Analysis Center (SIAC) 410 West 9800 South, Suite 370 Sandy, Utah 84070 410 West 9800 South, Suite 370 Sandy, Utah 84070 (801) 256-2360 saic@utah.gov
Vermont Vermont Fusion Center 188 Harvest Lane Williston, VT 09405 188 Harvest Lane Williston, VT 09405 (802) 872-6110 vtfusion@dps.state.vt.us
Virginia National Capital Region Intelligence Center 4100 Chain Bridge Road Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 212-4590 fcpd-ncric@fairfaxcounty.gov
Virginia Virginia Fusion Center 7700 Midlothian Turnpike Richmond, VA 23235 (804) 674-2196 vfc@vsp.virginia.gov
Washington Washington State Fusion Center (WSFC) Post Office Box 42600 Olympia, WA 98504 1110 Third Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 (877) 843-9522 wafusion@wsp.wa.gov
Wisconsin Southeastern Wisconsin Terrorism Alert Center 749 West State St Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 935-7767 ifc@milwaukee.gov
Wisconsin Wisconsin Statewide Intelligence Center Post Office Box 7857 Madison, WI 53707-7857 2445 Darwin Rd Madison, WI 53703 (608) 242-5393 wsic@doj.state.wi.us
Wyoming Wyoming Criminal Intelligence Center 316 West 22 Street Cheyenne, WY 82002 (307) 777-7181 klandm@dci.wyo.gov
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