Capitol Hill: Congress presses FBI to create arson registry
The House Judiciary Committee has approved legislation calling on the FBI to establish a national registry of convicted arsonists. The database would only be accessible to federal state and local law enforcement officials. Under the bill, convicted arsonists would be required to register with local law enforcement, providing their names, Social Security numbers and contact information. Names would remain on the list for five years after prison for a first offense, 10 years for second offense and for life if that person commits arson a third time.
House Democrats are pressing the Transportation Security Administration to share names of passengers wrongfully placed on its no-fly list. The effort is designed to prevent further harm to innocent individuals. Legislation proposed by Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) would require DHS appeals and redress offices to keep a single cleared list and share it with all component DHS agencies, as well as other federal, state and local authorities who use the FBI Terrorist Screening Center, which uses TSA no-fly lists as part of its database.
Rep. Bennie Thompson D-MS), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced legislation to ensure the federal government will provide adequate housing to disaster victims. The Safe and Health Emergency Housing Act of 2007 is designed to prevent a recurrence of the emergency housing disaster that occurred following Hurricane Katrina.
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