2. The Access Challenge Multiple ID Cards Several Purposesor
Pressure to keep traffic moving…
Emergency Support Identity / Qualifications
Multiple ID Cards
Several Purposes
Many Capabilities
The Reentry Access Problem:
The reentry access challenge comes down to a problem of coordination. Emergency Managers want the right people to have access into secure areas, law enforcement want to ensure those areas stay secure, and organizations want to receive access into those secure areas.
The problem with this is that all three parties often have difficulty coordinating this access effort, resulting in law enforcement officers attempting to be the sole decider on who should and shouldn’t receive access, while not being given the tools in order to facilitate that access decision by Emergency Manager’s. This mean’s officers at checkpoint need to handle the problem of multiple ID’s, multiple reentry destinations and multiple qualifications for reentry, without any system to define the appropriate time for personnel to enter an area.
This result’s in key organizations not receiving access into areas of need, and both law enforcement and emergency manager’s reducing their efficiency handling problems that take away from the disaster response and recovery effort.
Who are you?
Skills, Certifications, Roles
Why are you responding?

3. Emergency Access Program
Access after Events
Allows emergency responders, law enforcement, and private sector organizations to coordinate access.
Nationwide Interoperability
Access documents/codes that organizations can produce and display at checkpoints/staging areas.
Bottom-Up Approach/Local Control
Emergency Access Program’s use a basic framework and can have additional rules and restrictions for a specific jurisdiction.
The CERRA Access Program:
The CERRA Access Program has three main elements to it as mentioned before:
It’s designed for reentry access after events to ensure law enforcement, emergency managers, and businesses can manage and receive access after events.
It uses a uniform system so that your access placards work in every area that has a CERRA Access Program as opposed to just Harris County, TX
It’s locally controlled, so that you can still register locally, receive access to your facility, and coordinate with HCOHSEM and local law enforcement.

4. What is Reentry? Phased Entry Access Disaster Event Occurs
Scene is Secured
Emergency Responders Activate
Critical Organizations Respond
Damage Assessment/Critical Infrastructure
Recovery Personnel Respond
Long Term Recovery Personnel Respond

5. The CERRA Vehicle Placard:
The CERRA Vehicle Placard is the standard access document that will be used for reentry for a CERRA Access Program. This format will be uniform throughout all CERRA Access Program’s and ensure you only need to use one document for personnel entering Mississippi or other jurisdictions that support these program’s across the country.
These placards can be used for both a person AND vehicle to ensure that organizations can have a placard either corresponding to the individual vehicle responding or an individual person.
This placard has several basic features that ensure they can be identified by law enforcement:
Company Logo
Jurisdiction Logo (Mississippi)
Year it was Issued (18)
Access Level (AL -1)
Event (Emergency Event Sample)
Purpose (Damage Assessment)
Organization Name (Critical Organization)
Person Name (Michael Smith)
Emergency Support Function (ESF – 14)
QR Code for verification

6. Placards (Mobile and Paper)
Mobile Placard
Vehicle Placard
Mobile Placard
Vehicle Placard
How I receive it?
Sent Via SMS or
or Printed
When is Geolocation Available?
At all times
When Scanned by an Officer
Does it work in “No COMMS” Situations?
Yes
Placard Options:
The placard’s for a CERRA Access Program come in two forms: Paper or Mobile. This allows organizations the ability to easily send their placards to their personnel, and distribute them through various methods such as , SMS, or by printing.
The mobile feature along with the QR code, gives organizations the ability to geolocate personnel during a response effort, and the ability for the county to communicate access areas during a reentry situation.
Both the Mobile Placard and the Paper Placard work in NO COMM”s situations, meaning that you can always use these documents for reentry during a disaster event.

7. Checkpoint Access Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Arrive at Checkpoint with
a Mobile or Vehicle Placard
Step 2
Law Enforcement
scans QR Code
Step 3
Approved for Access!
The Access Process:
This final slide is designed to briefly show the access process in three steps:
Step 1: An individual or vehicle comes with their access placard to a checkpoint
Step 2: Law enforcement scans the QR code on the placard or visually inspects the placard
Step 3: The individual is approved for access into the area
(Note: The picture on the left gives an example of what the law enforcement officer will see when the placard is scanned)

8. The CERRA Approach Target: Framework Content:
CERRA Framework enables state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions to establish their own access programs, utilizing recommended best practices and a common process approach.
Maintains local control/local management key to success – not Federal direction
Framework Content:
Voluntary guidance – Think of it as a “how to guide”
Discusses Stakeholders’ Roles and Responsibilities
Access Planning Considerations
Best Practices recommendations
Phased Re-entry process
Use Cases
Resources and Templates
The CERRA Approach:
The Crisis Event Response and Recovery Access or CERRA Approach is a solution to this access challenge. This effort is designed to enable local jurisdictions to use a guideline or “best-practices approach” to reentry access. In simple terms, this mean’s that it allows Harris County to use a reentry system that can be recognized nationwide and allow organizations, law enforcement, and emergency managers to coordinate about reentry access real-time during an event.
The most important part of this effort is that it still ensures that the County has local control over it’s own access program, who can receive access placards, and who can be allowed access during an event. The only major difference is that now your reentry passes will be accepted on a nationwide level as opposed to just inside the county.

9. Registration Process
Organization registers themselves at ERITN.com for access into the Mississippi Emergency Access Program.
Organization is approved or denied for access at a specific “Access Level” and submits their personnel to receive a Placard.
Organization manages their personnel and Placards online and distributes them at their convenience.