South Dakota's current threat level is at yellow - as is the rest of the country.

But a Homeland Security Task Force meeting created some suggestions for change that could alter how we're alerted to terror threats.

Director of South Dakota's Homeland Security Alan Bock says, "Everyone needs to be aware, look and see what's going on. If something's out of place, tell people. There's no place that's immune from any kind of incident."

It's a lesson from 9/11.

Ever since that day Americans have had a heightened alert to events out of the ordinary.

It gave us a color-coded system that tells us how alert we need to be, which ranges from red, which is severe...to green which is low.

Currently U.S. airports operate at orange - meaning there's a high risk of threats.

The rest of the country is at the yellow level.

Bock says, "Which means it's possible but the likelihood is down, it's just more of an awareness type."

In September the 18-person Homeland Security Task Force met to discuss possible changes to the color coded alert system.

According to Bock, "9 people said we should stay with the color system, and the other 9 said we'd like to see it go to a verbal type of warning."

One of the changes discussed...making the alerts regional rather than nationwide.

"So there'd be different regions of the country where maybe new york is having a problem, we won't have the same reaction here."

That task force put their suggestions into a report which was submitted to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

She and the White House will decide if and when any of these changes take place.