Saving Lives, One A.C.T. at a Time.

 Lois Blevins is the founder and President of the National Center for Citizen Safety (NCCSAFE). She is retired after 34 years of federal law enforcement experience in intelligence, threat assessment, and training (design, development, and instruction) . Blevins now serves as an analyst for the Exelon (BGE) security department. Blevins has taught hundreds of courses related to law enforcement, as well as “train-the-trainer” courses to multiple law enforcement entities (special agents, officers, and professional and administrative personnel). She has also conducted training to multiple international delegates from countries such as South America, Thailand, and the Caribbean, which included law enforcement and judicial partners through the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA). Blevins has also designed multiple curricula for federal infrastructure security, protection, and investigations and has worked for the U.S. State Department in conducting curricula review.

Blevins holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and a Master’s Degree in Management Information Systems both from the University of Maryland. She has been trained by field experts in multiple disciplines, and most recently conducted a week-long course with the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.

After being involved for over 18 years with the non-profit organization Concerns of Police Survivors as a volunteer and serving on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Surge Capacity Force (a two-month temporary response to Hurricane Sandy) for her current agency, Blevins saw the Nation was severely being impacted with active assailants and other severe acts of nature on our Homeland. In 2013, Blevins decided to start a non-profit organization to ensure the organization’s services were either free or at an affordable cost to individuals and businesses. In 2014, after being approved by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, her mission to teach citizens how to lock-down, shelter-in-place, and respond to acts of domestic terrorism, such as active assailants, came to fruition. NCCSAFE’s resources also include online citizen response education, survivor resources, and a toll-free telephone number and cyber tip line.

Currently, the NCCSAFE has been conducting trainings with multiple library systems and universities in the Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware area. Recent trainings have occurred for the Howard County Library System, the local Chamber of Commerce, Salisbury University, and the Rotary Club at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. NCCSAFE has partnered with public and private organizations, such as McGruff the Crime Dog, and is currently looking to partner with several other organizations. In 2021 NCCSAFE hosted the 5th  Survivor Strong 5K virtually, where we had survivors speak to raise awareness to our cause, such as Ericka Brannock (survivor from the Boston Marathon), Michele Gay (surviving mother of Josephine Gay, daughter who was tragically taken in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting); as well as Hector Hernandez (U.S. Secret Service Agent who conducted significant recovery during the Oklahoma Bombing) and Rafael Matos (survivor of the 9/11 Pentagon crash and Washington Navy Yard shooting).

Barbara Golden is a 37-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service.  She served in an administrative capacity for 10 years and chose to continue her career as a special agent.  Golden became a criminal investigator in the Chicago Field Office, where she worked on a multitude of investigations regarding counterfeit currency, check forgeries, credit card fraud violations, threat assessments and protective intelligence cases.  She also sharpened her protection skills by serving on temporary details with the President, Vice President and various Heads of State.  

Golden’s career continued by serving three years on the Jimmy Carter Detail in Plains, GA.  Among numerous international and domestic trips, she conducted the advance work for President Carter’s trip to South Korea and continued as a member of the security detail for his unprecedented trip to North Korea.

Golden returned to the field in the Seattle Field Office and oversaw the training, investigative and administrative work and was a mentor for the agents assigned to the office.  

From 2001 until retirement, she advanced her career in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area.  Golden was quickly promoted through assignments in the Baltimore Field Office, Dignitary Protective Division, and the Inspection Division, which led her to becoming the Special Agent in charge of the Baltimore Field Office.  She was one of five females to hold this position globally within the agency.   Prior to retirement, Golden returned to Headquarters as the Special Agent in Charge of the Recruitment Division overseeing the complete review of marketing, selection, and training enhancements for hundreds of special agents, Uniformed Division Officers, and Administrative, Technical and Professional employees.

Golden continues to serve the private sector as a consultant by conducting threat/security assessments and contractual protective assignments.