Current through Chapter 519 of the 2024 Legislative Session and Chapter 2 of the 2024 First Extraordinary Session
Section 24-33.5-705.3 - Statewide all-hazards resource database - creation - definitions(1) For purposes of this section: (a) "Private sector agencies and organizations" means any private sector or nonprofit agency or organization that has resources useful in a disaster or emergency that it desires to list in the private sector portion of the database.(b) "Tribal, state, and local all-hazards response agency" means any all-hazards response agency of a tribe, the state and any of its subdivisions, and any town, city, and city and county, regardless of whether the personnel serving such department, district, or agency are volunteers or are compensated for their services.(2)(a) Not later than June 30, 2013, the office of emergency management, using existing computer resources, shall develop and maintain a centralized computer database that includes a listing of all all-hazards response resources located within Colorado.(a.5) Not later than June 30, 2019, the office of emergency management, using existing computer resources, shall update the centralized response computer database created pursuant to subsection (2)(a) of this section to include a listing of all-hazards recovery resources located in Colorado. The office shall continue to maintain and update the database regularly.(b) The database created pursuant to this subsection (2) must contain resource inventories, personnel counts, resource status, such other information relevant to the efficient tracking and allocation of all-hazards response and recovery resources, and a listing of all supplemental funding sources available to tribal, state, and local all-hazards response and recovery agencies. The information in this database shall be included with the information required to be collected and maintained pursuant to section 25-1.5-101(1)(p). The data gathered for or stored in this database must not contain personally identifying information without prior notice to the involved individual. The database shall be used in conjunction with the existing interagency dispatch system.(3)(a) The office of emergency management shall encourage tribal, state, and local response agencies to enter the information described in subsection (2) of this section into the database via the internet and provide a means for such data entry. All data entered into the database must be verifiable by the office of emergency management. The office of emergency management shall encourage participating tribal, state, regional, and local response agencies to update the data as necessary.(b) The database must be accessible via the internet to all tribal, state, regional, and local response agencies for the purpose of efficiently tracking and allocating response and recovery resources in the event of a disaster or local incident that requires more resources than those available under any existing interjurisdictional or mutual aid arrangement.(4) The office of emergency management shall establish guidelines for the development and maintenance of the database created pursuant to subsection (2) of this section so that tribal, state, regional, and local response and recovery agencies can easily access the database. The office shall develop the guidelines with input from tribal, state, regional, and local response and recovery agencies and private sector agencies and organizations.Amended by 2018 Ch. 234,§ 8, eff. 8/8/2018.L. 2012: Entire part RC&RE with relocations, (HB 12-1283), ch. 240, p. 1079, § 10, effective July 1. L. 2018: (2)(a.5) added and (2)(b), (3), and (4) amended, (HB 18-1394), ch. 234, p. 1464, § 8, effective August 8.This section is similar to former § 24-33.5-108 as it existed prior to 2012.