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**News Release Archive for August 2005**
*Public Safety*	Matt Blunt, Governor	Mark James, Director

	August 2	Gov. Blunt Announces Missouri Will Join ICE Initiative
	August 3	Gov. Blunts’ School Bus Safety Task Force to Continue Recommendation Process
	August 3	Three Men Arrested in Connection With MoDOT Robbery
	August 4	Bus Safety Task Force Deliberates on Seatbelts But Moves Forward on Action Items
	August 8	Blunt Finalizes Homeland Security Council with Appointment of Three Public Members
	August 9	Gov. Blunts’ Homeland Security Council to Hold First Meeting
	August 10	Final School Bus Safety Task Force Meeting Before Recommendations to Gov. Blunt
	August 11	Gov. Blunt to Honor 400 deploying Soldiers at Kauffman Stadium Ceremony
	August 22	Dirty Bomb Exercise a Training Success
	August 22	Columbia Bar Employees Trained on New Alcohol Laws
	August 24	Director Chapman Returns from National Homeland Security Conference
	August 25	Gov. Blunt Announces $7.8 Million in Homeland Security Grants to Benefit Missouri Fire Departments
	August 26	Special Agents from the Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control Train as Firearms Instructors
	August 30	Gov. Blunt Touts Bus Safety Recommendations in St. Louis, Kansas City and Jeff City
	August 30	Missouri Kicks Off National Preparedness Month with Bioterrorism Exercise