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City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan
<br />Part I Basic Plan
<br />Advanced state -sponsored cyber actors and criminal hackers may also use malware as a means to obtain and
<br />maintain persistent illicit access to targeted networks to facilitate denial and destruction of data, cyber espionage,
<br />and commit other types of fraudulent activity.
<br />• Following a high -profile Orange County court case in 2014, the hacktivist group Anonymous targeted law
<br />enforcement officers and city council officials by releasing personal information, home addresses, phone
<br />numbers, and the names of family members through social media networks.
<br />• A municipal city and several local public -safety agencies in Southern California in early June 2014 were
<br />infected by ransomware, resulting in the compromise of more than 100 computers and 10 servers.
<br />Local Vulnerabilities and Hazards
<br />Due to the tremendous variety of causes supported by terrorists and the wide variety of potential targets, there is
<br />no place that is truly safe from terrorism. California's population, industrial infrastructure, economic importance,
<br />international reputation and numerous iconic features combine to make the state a potential target for both
<br />domestic and international terrorist attacks. Throughout California, there are nearly a limitless number of potential
<br />targets, depending on the perspective of the terrorist. Some of these targets include reproductive health clinics,
<br />religious facilities, government offices, public places (such as shopping centers and entertainment venues),
<br />schools, power plants, refineries, utility infrastructure, water storage facilities, dams, financial institutions, and
<br />other businesses.
<br />The Federal government defines critical infrastructures as systems whose "incapacity or destruction would have
<br />a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the nation." For Orange County, these services include
<br />telecommunications, electrical power systems, gas and oil storage facilities, transportation, water supply systems,
<br />wastewater systems, and government and emergency services. Facilities that store, use or produce hazardous
<br />materials (HazMat) are not only critical to the economy, but the HazMat substances themselves could be used as
<br />a weapon. On a municipal level, critical infrastructure could include police stations, fire stations, city offices,
<br />community centers, theaters, sport centers, educational facilities, religious facilities, banks, shopping centers,
<br />power stations, transmission lines, telephone relays, drinking water supplies, water treatment facilities,
<br />restaurants, and grocery stores; all are potential terrorist targets.
<br />Various public and private entities in the City of Santa Ana entities are susceptible to targeting by various political,
<br />single -issue, or anti -government extremists who continue to pose a threat to government facilities due to perceived
<br />infringements on their rights and freedoms by government officials or law enforcement personnel.
<br />The Santa Ana Civic Center is a concentrated collection of City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of
<br />California and United States federal government office buildings and agency headquarters, including Santa Ana
<br />City Hall, Santa Ana Police Department and Jail, Orange County Sheriffs Department and Jails, most Orange
<br />County agency headquarters, various state and federal agency headquarters, and the County, State and Federal
<br />Courthouses. A group or individual with grievances against almost any governmental entity or function can find
<br />a target in the Civic Center, or a group or individual that wants to harm government in general can cause
<br />widespread impacts in the Civic Center, disabling all levels and branches of government in one act.
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