the testimony i've heard on behalf of hsn, they are participants as private property owners and they do one of the things we want, which is to bring people to the area, to activate the area at night. by the way, the first i heard about this is in the testimony. what i'm troubled by is the notion on the one hand, there was robust outreach and on the other hand, the representative of shn is saying that they came to learn about this very late in the process. so i think the question before us, particularly given that every aspect of a cbd is under the authority of legislative body. we can create them. if there's a majority vote and we don't want to do it, we don't have to do it. we can actually terminate them in the middle of their term. i mean, every aspect of a cbd is under the generatio jurisdictioe legislative body. body. i'm worried that an outfit as part of their business model has their own security and what have you, that our participants and want to be participants and i don't even know what the financial delta is between what they pay as a tenderloin participant versus what the

hsn intel is utilized by professionals across the country and 40,000 products and a range of homeland security threat issues. that includes domestic terrorism. since 2016, we have increased that number of products by approximately 64% of the number of products shared. woe measure the effectiveness of these products, and in fiscal years 2017 be and 2018, we saw a 325% increase in terms of how these products and how often they're being viewed. additionally, feedback from the products we post receive above 90% in terms of how they are viewed and their usefulness to our partners. lastly, we have recently announced internal to our internal intelligence enterprise, to realign our efforts and we are introducing a new program to enhance the reporting of tips and leads, partnerships with our colleagues here, regarding potential mass shooting casualty events links to terrorism and other incidents. lastly, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today and represent the men and women of dhs. and your questions. thank you. >> thank you very much. thank the witness force their testimony.

we basically -- one of the many things we do is run what's called the homeland security network or hsnntel. and we have posted approximately 40,000 products on that site. they're not just dhs products they're state and local product, they are also the products of virtually every federal agency that does work in the domestic space and we continue to improve that site. since 2016, that site has -- and the quality of products we're putting on there has increased and we know that by measuring it in a couple of different ways. one is the metrics that we've increased the volume by approximately 64%. we also look at how often and what actual products are reviewed and so we've seen a, approximately 325% increase in the number of views, and then we ask for metrics back from, and qualitative and quantitative responses from our colleagues which is exclusively state and local law enforcement, is do these products matter. and we see the products get upwards of a 90% approval rating. that being said, that is just one technical fix. we're also mindful that we have to continually advertise that this e