[KyARES] RE: [KYHAM] National Disaster Response Plan Needed?

[Fred Flowers]

The locals still have to ask for it.  It looks like in this case disaster 
relief & law enforcement are one and the same.

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Subject: Re: [KyARES] RE: [KYHAM] National Disaster Response Plan Needed?


>> There is a Federal law on the books that stops that.  The States have to 
>> ask the Fed to send the military. 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
>
> Actually the Posse Comitatus Act prevents using the federal military for 
> law enforcement, not for most aspects of disaster relief.
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