DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES

Gordon C. Karnka, Secretary
Edwin R, Tully, Deputy Secretary for Public Safety
J. Brown Hardy, Deputy Secretary for Correctional Services
H. Edgar Lentz, Assistant Attorney General

Suite 500, One Investment Place
Towson 21204 Telephone: 321-3686

The following agencies, boards, and commissions are a part of the Department: The State Civil De-
fense and Disaster Preparedness Agency, Civil Defense and Disaster Preparedness Council, Criminal
Injuries Compensation Board, State Fire Prevention Commission, State Fire Marshal, Police Training
Commission, Maryland State Police, Division of Correction, Division of Parole and Probation, Parole
Commission, Advisory Board for Correction, Parole and Probation, Patuxent Institution, Board of Pa-
tuxent Institution, Sundry Claims Board, the Correctional Training Commission, the Inmate Grievance
Commission, and the Handgun Permit Review Board.

The Department administers the Data Center for public safety, law enforcement, and correctional
agencies within the State. The Data Center currently provides data processing services to the State Police,
Division of Correction, Division of Parole and Probation, Patuxent Institution, Juvenile Services, and lo-
cal agencies. It provides computer terminal and computer-to-computer data transmission between Mary-
land Criminal Justice agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Motor Vehicle Administra-
tion, Baltimore City Police Depaitment, the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System,
and the Washington, D.C., area law enforcement computer system furnishing law enforcement and other
data stored in these systems to the inquiring agency (Code 1957, Art. 41, seps. 204-204F).

MARYLAND CIVIL DEFENSE AND
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AGENCY

Col. George M. Brooks, Director

State Control Center

Reisterstown Road and Sudbrook Lane
Pikesville 21208 Telephone: 486-4422

CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS ADVISORY COUNCIL

Chairperson: Paul E. Welsh

Charles Carroll III, J. Robert Cassell, Dominic
N. Fomaro, Galen Fromme, Chris W. George,
Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., Joseph H. McElwee, E.
Roderick Shipley, Warren E. Tydings, Mrs.
William F. Wendler, E. Homer White, Jr.

EMERGENCY RESOURCES PRIORITY
BOARD

Chairperson: Harry Hughes, Governor

Heads of State departments, serving ex officio: J.
Max Millstone, Secretary of General Services;

Charles R. Buck, Jr„ Secretary, Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene; Frank 0. Heintz,
Executive Director, Employment Security Ad-
ministration; James J. O'Donnell, Secretary, De-
partment of Transportation; Vacancy, Secretary,
Department of Economic and Community Devel-
opment

Private sector members: Joseph Danzansky,
Donald L. DeVries, Dominic N. Fomaro,
Thomas M. Gibbons, lrwin E. Killian, C. Lyie
Knight, Mrs. Russell Pope, Bernard C.
Tnieschler.

The Maryland Civil Defense and Disaster Pre-
paredness Agency was originally established by
Chapter 563, Acts of 1949, as the Maryland Civil
Defense Agency. By Chapter 401, Acts of 1970, it
was designated the Maryland Civil Defense and
Emergency Planning Agency. It acquired its pres-
ent name by Chapter 666, Acts of 1975. The Di-
rector is appointed by the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services with the approv-
al of the Governor and is responsible to the Gov-
ernor and the Secretary for carrying out the pro-
gram in Maryland.