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California counterterrorism groups

Don Thompson The Associated Press
Friday December 28, 2001

CATIC: California Anti-Terrorism Information Center. Set up by Attorney General Bill Lockyer Sept. 25. Intelligence gathering and threat assessment. 

CJIC: California Joint Information Center. Opened immediately after Sept. 11 by Gov. Gray Davis’ Office of Emergency Services. “One-stop shop” for terrorism information. 

SSCOTT: State Strategic Committee on Terrorism. Set up by Davis in 1999. 

S-TAC: State Threat Assessment Committee. A subgroup of SSCOTT.