Bylaws and Policies

The Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program at Florida State University is governed by bylaws, published here. These bylaws and additional memos set the framework of our organziation. In addition to these bylaws and policies, EMHS is governed by the policies and procedures of the College of Social Science and Public Policy, Florida State University, the Floride Board of Governors, and the policies, statutes, regulations and procedures of the State of Florida.

 Bylaws and Policies (PDF Format)

Thank you for visiting the FSU EMHS website. Your privacy is very important to us. Simply stated, our policy is to collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us.

When you visit our website, our web server automatically recognizes only the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed our website. This information does not result in the identification of your personal e-mail address or other personal information.

If you choose to share personal information with us — by sending us a message, or filling out an electronic form with personal information — we will use the information only for the purposes you authorized or in support of university sponsored programs. Some of the information may be saved for a designated period of time to comply with Florida's archiving policies, but we will not disclose the information to other third parties or government agencies, unless required to do so by state or federal law or in support of university sponsored programs.

If we are required to disclose information about you by law, we will make every effort to notify you of the disclosure in advance.

If you have other questions about our privacy policies, or have ideas about improving our policies, please feel free to e-mail us at info@em.fsu.edu, or you can reach us by telephone at 850-644-9961.

Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public-records request, do not send electronic mail to Florida State University. Instead, make contact by phone or in writing.