Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/25227

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Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties

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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties addresses the legal issues concerning the measures to detect communicable diseases, regulations to control communicable diseases, methods for decontamination, emergency legal preparedness, privacy, and potential sources of liability. This digest provides a checklist that airport attorneys and other staff can use to help prepare, plan, and coordinate with their partners in response to a threat of a communicable disease.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Airport Cooperative Research Program; Legal Research Programs; Airport Cooperative Research Program Legal Program; Leila Barraza and Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25227.

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60 pages | 8.5 x 11 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25227

Chapters		skim
ACRP Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties	1-1
Contents	2-2
I. Introduction	3-4
II. Legal Considerations for Communicable Disease Response Planning	5-13
III. Legal Authorities for Roles and Responsibilities	14-14
IV. Ensuring Privacy and Confidentiality	15-20
V. The Changing Legal Environment During Emergencies	21-26
VI. Potential Liability and Protections	27-30
Contributions	31-31
Acronyms	32-32
Glossary	33-34
Appendix A: Stakeholders	35-35
Appendix B: State and Local Quarantine and Isolation Laws of the 10 Busiest Airports	36-48
Appendix C: Checklist of Legal Issues to Consider in Developing Airport Communicable Disease Preparedness Plans	49-56
Acknowledgments	57-60

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