On February 10, 2011, Governor Mary Fallin appointed Kim Edd Carter as the second Director of OKOHS.
In January 2004, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designating the Office as the State Administrative Agency (SAA) – the single state agency responsible for the delivery of federal homeland security training, equipment funding and technical assistance.
Governor Brad Henry signed the bill and formally created the standalone agency – the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.
Developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security and put into action in March 2004, it establishes a uniform set of processes and procedures that emergency responders at all levels of government will use to conduct response operations.
[3] The purpose of this program is to enable federal, state, and local authorities to respond to any domestic incident regardless of its urgency, size of the threat.