U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.

Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.

The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Recommendations
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Implement sufficient controls to ensure all incidents involving an imminent or ongoing threat of sexual and/or physical abuse or exploitation of a child or adult are handled within 24 hours as required.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Implement sufficient controls to ensure FBI employees responsible for notifying victims and providing victim services become aware of all eligible federal crime victims, notify and offer services to these victims, and document victim notifications and services offered to victims in the investigative case file.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Implement sufficient controls that ensure Assessments in Guardian that are converted to a predicated investigation include the opening documentation required by the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG).
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Enhance its monitoring of leads to ensure that leads are covered timely and appropriately.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Develop an enterprise-wide strategy that addresses the rising number of crimes against children and human trafficking (CAC/HT) cases and ensures CAC/HT agents have appropriate support and resources to manage their assigned caseloads.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Implement a comprehensive training program specific to the CAC/HT program for both current and future agents, task force officers, and other FBI employees assigned to this program.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI develop, implement, and disseminate written policies and procedures specific to: The VOCA-funded program administration
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI develop, implement, and disseminate written policies and procedures specific to: Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of its victim records and ensuring its performance reports are accurate.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI develop, implement, and disseminate written policies and procedures specific to: Ensure adequate controls over transactions being approved by designated approvers and segregation of duties are implemented, including in cases where the designated approver is also the requester.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI develop, implement, and disseminate written policies and procedures specific to: Allocating costs in proportion to the benefits obtained or another reasonable basis.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI develop, implement, and disseminate written policies and procedures specific to: Reconciliation of programmatic activities affecting financial outlays, to ensure that any victim direct assistance is utilized fully and that associated costs for any unused assistance is refunded to the CCI's VOCA funds appropriately.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI: Re-evaluate its stated goal of serving 300 new and unduplicated victims to ensure the goal is attainable for future VOCA subaward applications.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the CCI: Develop controls within its fiscal policies and procedures to ensure adequate supporting documentation is maintained for all VOCA-funded transactions.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $9,448
    Remedy CCI's unsupported questioned costs totaling $9,448.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Nevada DCFS incorporates controls to verify the accuracy of its subrecipients' quarterly performance reports.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Revise its procedures to ensure all electronic storage media containing sensitive or classified information, including hard drives that are extracted from computers slated for destruction, are appropriately accounted for, tracked, timely sanitized, and destroyed.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Implement controls to ensure its electronic storage media are marked with the appropriate National Security Information (NSI) classification level markings, in accordance with applicable policies and guidelines.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims develops a conflict of interest policy.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Work with the Illinois Court of Claims to ensure its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, FY 2021, and FY 2022 Crime Victim State Certification Forms accurately reflect all activity and payments and take necessary steps to recover any excess awarded funds as appropriate.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims incorporates its informal procedure for completing state certification forms into the Illinois Court of Claims' official accounting procedures and that this procedure instructs the use of actual expenditures, rather than drawdown amounts, when computing the total amount of Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) victim compensation formula grant funds used to pay compensation claims.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims updates its policies and procedures to reflect the current method for tracking performance information and that the Illinois Court of Claims follows its existing policy of conducting a secondary review of performance data prior to its entry into the performance report.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims examines its existing financial management activities and establishes enhanced controls to help mitigate the risk associated with manual data entry. As part of this effort, the Illinois Court of Claims should consider the use of an electronic financial management system with inherent controls.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims assesses its grant administration needs and identifies how best to use the administrative expenditure allowance in carrying out its grant administration activities, including considering its need for improvements to its program infrastructure and the prudence of utilizing grant funds to pay the full compensation of a commissioner for periods in which no work is performed.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $123,965
    Remedy the $123,965 in unsupported costs associated with victim compensation claims.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $1,200
    Remedy the $1,200 in unallowable costs relating to the fitness equipment.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims aligns its policies and procedures with the DOJ Grants Financial Guide's record retention requirements.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims enhances it policies and procedures to include the daily loss of earnings computation methodology and the use of the templated spreadsheet.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    Ensure that the Illinois Court of Claims updates its drawdown policy to ensure that federal cash on hand is the minimum needed for reimbursements or disbursements made immediately or within 10 days.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    In coordination with the Department of Justice (Department), continue to support implementation of the Final Rule by advancing counsel and responding expediently to requests for information that are routed to the BOP from various stakeholders.
  • Resolved
    Office of Justice Programs
    $8,361
    Remedy $8,361 in unsupported contractor costs under Grant Number 15PJDP-22-GG-03809 DGCT.