SANTA ANA—Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes announced June 3 he has been chosen to head a committee on a national association of sheriffs. Barnes will chair the intelligence commanders committee for the Major County Sheriffs of America organization. Barnes said he hoped to especially focus on cyber security with the rash of ransomware attacks on corporations that crippled the fuel and meat packing industries. The committee works with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies on a variety of threats to the nation, Barnes said. Barnes told City News Service he is “fortunate enough to be the only sheriff in Southern California with a fusion center,” a collaborative homeland security effort of local law enforcement agencies that focuses on terrorist activity. Cyber attacks are a concern, but not the only one, Barnes said. “It’s not just about cyber attacks,” Barnes said. “That’s one of the rising risks. This is also …