The Real Homeland Security Gaps
44 Pages Posted: 24 Jun 2016
Date Written: May 13, 2016
Abstract
This Article reveals the real security gaps in the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service (“FPS”) and suggests that the excessive delegation of FPS’s vital security functions to private contractors should be treated as an unconstitutional delegation of an inherently governmental function. It presents the FPS mission of protecting critical federal infrastructure as a national priority that Congress recognized after 9/11 as vitally important to the nation’s homeland security. Despite this recognition, there has been widespread delegation of the FPS security function to private contractors. The Article considers the regulatory and constitutional law concerns raised by privatization, suggesting that excessive privatization of the FPS security function undermines core democratic precepts and therefore ought to be treated as an unconstitutional private delegation.
Keywords: Homeland Security, homeland, security, federal protective service, fps, delegation, nondelegation, non-delegation, inherently governmental function, constitutional law, privatization, private contractors, administrative law, outsourcing
JEL Classification: K23
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