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  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    $78,667
    Remedy $78,667 in unsupported fringe benefits expenditures.
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    Ensure AVP implements written policies and procedures to ensure fringe benefit expenditures are accurate and calculated correctly.
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    Ensure AVP implements written policies and procedures to ensure program costs are approved by OVW, allocable to the grant, and supported with adequate documentation necessary to demonstrate compliance with its purchasing procedures and the federal grant requirements.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Develop a comprehensive strategic plan for transitioning to a fully digital security camera system that, among other things:a. identifies enhancements needed to address camera functionality and coverage deficiencies, b. provides cost projections and the BOP appropriations account to fund the upgrades, andc. includes an estimated timeline for completion of the work.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Ensure all identified series either have Notification Preference Forms on file or maintain complete information on the status of efforts to acquire the forms.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    The Department should modify existing policy concerning a DOJ attorney's participation in a criminal or civil investigation or prosecution in which a former client is a witness, subject, target, defendant, or party, to ensure that any such participation does not cause a reasonable person to question that attorney's impartiality.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    The Department should consider what requirements, guidance, and/or training should be provided to any incoming Department attorneys entering service regarding their handling of potential conflicts arising from their representation of clients arising from their representation of clients prior to joining DOJ.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Prioritize its efforts to consolidate the Department's HR policies in a centralized location accessible to components and incorporate the relevant policies into DOJ Order 1200.1, as appropriate.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    The BOP should ensure that alarms on all exterior building doors in FPCs and SPCs are in working condition and should take appropriate measures to prevent them from being susceptible to tampering.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    The BOP should ensure that all existing video cameras in FPCs and SPCs are in working condition.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    The BOP should install video cameras on all exterior building doors at FPCs and SPCs, so that BOP Control Officers can observe the doors while Camp Officers are occupied with performing their duties, such as inmate counts.
  • Resolved
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    Examine ways to implement the use of secure, internal network connections to transfer data between LIMS and other work systems with the goal of implementing a more secure method of data transfer than relying on external storage devices.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Require the Chicago PD to perform an in-depth review of its equitable sharing financial
    activity and either: (1) provide detailed documentation to support its existing FY 2019 and
    FY 2020 ESAC submissions, or (2) submit amended ESACs along with detailed documentation
    to support the balance and expenditure figures reported.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    United States Marshals Service
    Clarify officer safety-related training requirements for operational personnel, including Task Force Officers, and ensure that the requirements are clearly established in policy.
  • Resolved
    United States Marshals Service
    Ensure that all Tactical Training Officers receive skills sustainment training.
  • Resolved
    United States Marshals Service
    Ensure that the new After-Action Review policy is implemented so that all critical incidents stemming from operations led by and/or involving U.S. Marshals Service personnel are reviewed for lessons learned and used to update and adjust officer safety-related training.
  • 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.
  • 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.