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Office of Emergency Management

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority | Agency History |
Published histories/articles | State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page

Statutory Authority :
Sec. 28-1 to 28-32, General Statutes.

Agency History :

1950, Office of Civil Defense established per 1955 Cum. Suppl. S.1906d.
1959, Office of Civil Defense becomes a division of the Military Dept.
1973, becomes Office of Civil Preparedness, a division of the State Military Dept. per P.A. 73-544.
1979, Office of Civil Preparedness is placed in the new Dept. of Public Safety
1988, October 1, Office of Civil Preparedness becomes the Office of Emergency Management, stays under the Dept. of Public Safety, per P.A. 88-135.
1999, Office of Emergency Management transferred to the Military Dept. for administrative purposes per P.A. 99-190.
2005, merged into new Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, per P.A. 04-219.

Published Histories/Articles :
Not available

Archived Emergency Management and Homeland Security Web site, as harvested on 2007-04-10, by the Connecticut State Library, Connecticut Digital Archive.

Agency Documents in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

Connecticut. Office of Civil Defense.
Connecticut. Office of Civil Preparedness.
Connecticut. Office of Emergency Management.

Annual Reports are located in :

Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d] and 2002-2005, the online version

State Archives Record Group :
Not available

List of Commissioners :

Name

Years of Service

Brig. Gen. William Hesketh

 1951-1954

Leo J. Mulcahy

 1955-1959

William L. Schatzman

 1960-1970

J. Raymond Sjostedt

 1971-1974

Frank Mancuso

 1975-1991

James F. Neale

 1992

Robert A. Plant

 1993-1998

George Luther (Acting)

 1999

John J. Wiltse

 2000-2003

Kerry L. Flaherty 2004

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 7/2008.