1. A system for identifying and reporting a presence of a substance, the system comprising: a deployable data collection mechanism for collecting data for identifying the substance; a position-determining mechanism adapted to determine an actual geographic location of the deployable data collection mechanism; a database that associates a plurality of geographic locations with respective local reporting authorities and respective local reporting policies, such that the actual geographic location of the deployable data collection mechanism can be used to identify an appropriate local reporting authority and appropriate local reporting policy; and a transmitter adapted to transmit the actual geographic location and the data collected by the deployable data collection mechanism, and to contact the appropriate local reporting authority in accordance with the appropriate local reporting policy.