[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 22 (Thursday, February 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 6535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01959]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2024-0003]


Faith-Based Security Advisory Council

AGENCY: The Office of Partnership and Engagement (OPE), The Department 
of Homeland Security (DHS).

ACTION: Notice of new taskings for the Faith-Based Security Advisory 
Council (FBSAC).

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SUMMARY: On January 5, 2024, the Secretary of DHS, Alejandro N. 
Mayorkas, issued a memorandum tasking the Faith-Based Security Advisory 
Council (FBSAC) to establish two subcommittees further outlined below. 
This notice is not a solicitation for membership.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sameer Hossain, Designated Federal 
Officer, Faith-Based Security Advisory Council of Department of 
Homeland Security, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5117130210121139207f3539227f363e27"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f090d1c0e0c0f273e612b273c61282039">[email protected]</span></a> or 202-891-2876.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FBSAC provides organizationally 
independent, strategic, timely, specific, and actionable advice to the 
Secretary through the OPE Assistant Secretary, who serves as the DHS 
Faith-Based Organizations Security Coordinator on security and 
preparedness matters related to places of worship, faith communities, 
and faith-based organizations. The Council consists of members who are: 
faith-based organization security officials; faith-based organization 
leaders; faith leaders; state and local public safety, law enforcement, 
and emergency management leaders; and a representative from the 
Department of Justice or Federal Bureau of Investigation.
    The Secretary has requested that the FBSAC form new subcommittees 
to study and provide recommendations in the following critical areas 
for the Department:
    1. Countering Transnational Repression (TNR), providing 
recommendations on how DHS can partner with faith-based organizations 
to develop a strategy to protect faith-based community stakeholders 
from incidents of TNR; provide process recommendations that faith-based 
leaders and security professionals can implement to inform faith-based 
communities about ongoing TNR threats and resources; an effective way 
to encourage faith-based communities to report TNR threats; and 
assessments for faith-based leaders and security professional on how 
well safety and security resources are working in terms of community 
utilization and effective mitigation of TNR incidents.
    2. Countering and responding to Targeted Violence and Terrorism, 
providing recommendations on how DHS can partner with faith-based 
organizations to survey existing multi-faith initiatives nationwide to 
establish a ``best practices toolkit'' on how faith-based organizations 
and institutions can build resiliency against threats of targeted 
violence and terrorism; examples of faith-based entities that have 
prevented targeted violence and terrorism utilizing safety and security 
resources; best practices from those examples that other faith 
communities can adopt; examples of how faith communities utilized 
federal government resources in the immediate aftermath and long-term; 
and avenues for DHS to assist with community building to increase 
resilience across faith groups in the event of an act of targeted 
violence.
    Schedule: The subcommittees findings and recommendations will be 
submitted to the FBSAC for its deliberation and vote during a public 
meeting within 150 days of January 5, 2024.

    Dated: January 18, 2024.
Sameer Hossain,
Designated Federal Officer, Faith-Based Security Advisory Council, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2024-01959 Filed 1-31-24; 8:45 am]
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