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City of Pleasanton Emergency Operations Plan 32 June 2025 institutions and that is not created by a government but may work cooperatively with government. Such organizations serve a public purpose, not a private benefit. Examples of NGOs include faith-based charity organizations and the American Red Cross. Office of Emergency Services: An office that coordinates emergency response and management and resource support either at the local, County, or State level. Operational Area (OA): An intermediate level of the State emergency organization, consisting of a County and all political subdivisions within the County’s geographic borders. An OA is defined in law (Section 8559, California Government Code) as an organization (not a jurisdiction) whose boundaries are those of a County. This organization is not necessarily a County government; it could be several Cities, a City and a County, a County government, or several County governments willing to coordinate the flow of mutual aid and information within the defined area. The OA concept is the backbone of SEMS. Plan: As used by OES, a document that describes the broad, overall jurisdictional response to potential extraordinary emergencies or disasters. PPD: Pleasanton Police Department Preparedness: The range of deliberate, critical tasks and activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the operational capability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents. Preparedness is a continuous process. Preparedness involves efforts at all levels of government and between government, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to identify threats, determine vulnerabilities, and identify required resources. Within the NIMS, preparedness is operationally focused on establishing guidelines, protocols, and standards for planning, training and exercises, personnel qualification and certification, equipment certification, and publication management. Prevention: Actions to avoid an incident or to intervene to stop an incident from occurring. Prevention involves actions to protect lives and property. It involves applying intelligence and other information to a range of activities that may include such countermeasures as deterrence operations; heightened inspections; improved surveillance and security operations; investigations to determine the full nature and source of the threat; public health and agricultural surveillance and testing processes; immunizations, isolation, or quarantine; and as appropriate, specific law enforcement operations aimed at deterring, preempting, interdicting, or disrupting illegal activity and apprehending potential perpetrators and bringing them to justice. Private Sector: Organizations and entities that are not part of any governmental structure. It includes for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, formal and informal structures, commerce and industry, and private voluntary organizations. Public Information Officer (PIO): The individual at field or EOC level that has been delegated the authority to prepare public information releases and to interact with the media. Duties will vary depending upon the agency and SEMS level. Recovery: Activities traditionally associated with providing Federal supplemental disaster recovery assistance under a Presidential major disaster declaration. These activities usually begin within days after the event and continue after the response activities cease. Recovery includes individual and Public Assistance programs that provide temporary housing assistance, grants and loans to eligible Page 236 of 264