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  • Resolved
    United States Marshals Service
    Evaluate whether modifications to training are needed to adequately cover open space encounters and to better support small teams, and, if so, develop and implement methods to ensure that training adequately addresses these.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    United States Marshals Service
    Establish guidance and procedures for U.S. Marshals Service staff to follow in working with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement case workers to facilitate communication between family unit adults separated from associated family unit minors, especially parents in U.S. Marshals Service custody and their children in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Work with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Homeland Security to develop a formal interagency agreement (such as a memorandum of understanding) regarding the facilitation of communication between separated children in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody and their parents in U.S. Marshals Service custody.
  • Resolved
    United States Marshals Service
    Work with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Homeland Security to develop a formal interagency agreement (such as a memorandum of understanding) regarding the facilitation of communication between separated children in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody and their parents in U.S. Marshals Service custody.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that its Correctional Services Manual includes policy on the required number of perimeter patrol vehicles at all types of institutions and implement a policy on the circumstances necessitating changes to the required number of perimeter patrol vehicles.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Establish a policy on the required assignment and use of Roving Alarm Notification System (RANS) hand-held radios.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Consider developing a national policy requiring institutional assessments of U.S. Penitentiaries (USP) on a prescribed, regular basis.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Improve the institutional assessment process by ensuring the Institutional Assessment Guidelines are comprehensive and include all necessary perimeter security aspects, ensuring the assessment reports are consistent in form and content, and requiring reviewed facilities to respond to any recommendations in the assessment reports.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    Implement the preventative and detective internal controls over PGI (developing PGI spend plans, timely 90-day reviews, and quarterly headquarters examination of financial activity) as prescribed by the Department's Risk Mitigation Policy Memorandum, the AG FBI Undercover Guidelines, and the Agents Manual.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Formally determine whether the policies within the AG FBI Undercover Guidelines apply, in their entirety or in specific instances, to all DOJ law enforcement components; or if the Department must issue new guidance to govern undercover operations that are initiated by DOJ law enforcement components outside of the FBI.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Ensure that the DEA's policies reflect necessary measures and controls stipulated in applicable Department undercover guidance.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Establish controls that mitigate the risk of inmates communicating with unknown and un-vetted parties and take steps, including the utilization of available technological features as found in TRULINCS, to reduce the risk of mass emails being received by high-risk inmates, including terrorist inmates.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Review cellblock conversation monitoring policy, procedures, and capabilities to determine whether and how improvements can be made to achieve security goals, including improvement of audio monitoring systems.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Revisit its social communication monitoring policy for high-risk inmates, including terrorist inmates, to better ensure that all visits between terrorist inmates and their visitors are sufficiently monitored.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    In conjunction with the efforts to address Recommendation Number 2, examine current field office initiatives that provide an ongoing mechanism to revisit subjects of closed assessments and investigations. This examination should identify any legal, policy, and civil liberties implications so that a decision can be made as to whether all FBI field offices should undertake similar initiatives.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Ensure that the Senior Federal Law Enforcement Official cadre participates in National Level Exercises, when applicable, and ESF-13 Table Top Exercises.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Address the problems with the administration and assessment of CHSs identified in the report. (see items 4a. through 4f. on pages 415 and 416)
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Ensure that appropriate training on DIOG 4 is provided to emphasize the constitutional implications of certain monitoring situations and to ensure that agents account for these concerns, both in the tasking of CHSs and in the way they document interactions with and tasking of CHSs.
  • Resolved
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    Require that all suspicious orders reports be sent to DEA headquarters.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Complete the heating, ventilation, and cooling equipment upgrade subproject at Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn and ensure that the equipment is capable of maintaining temperatures at BOP targets. Further, ensure that upgraded hardware and Building Management System software allow facilities staff to accurately monitor building temperatures and heating, ventilation, and cooling equipment performance.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Take further action to diagnose the sources of temperature regulation issues and remedy them, if the upgraded Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn heating, ventilation, and cooling system cannot maintain building temperatures at BOP targets.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that, in the absence of Building Management System software, institutions use a consistent and sound method to measure and document temperatures and record all maintenance performed on heating, ventilation, and cooling equipment.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Require institutions to maintain a list of inmates who use continuous positive airway pressure machines, or other electronic medical devices, in their cells so that institution staff can make every effort to accommodate those inmates in the event of a power outage.
  • Resolved
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    Implement methods to accurately and completely track all foreign national sponsorship information for individual foreign nationals, including expiration dates.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Update Cyber Division Policy Guide 0853PG to include a minimum requirement for information that should be included in a victim notification and in victim notification leads, to ensure the consistency and effectiveness of victim notifications.