The Office of the Inspector General provided a draft of this report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its comments. The FBI’s response is included in Appendix VI of this report. The OIG’s analysis of the FBI’s response and the actions necessary to close the recommendations are discussed below.
Recommendation 1. The FBI should ensure NSOR has more complete and accurate information by designing and implementing a new audit of jurisdiction registries’ compliance with FBI NSOR procedures and with the SORNA guidelines.
Status. Resolved – open.
Summary of the FBI Response. The FBI concurred with this recommendation and stated that its Criminal Justice Information Services Division is scheduled to re-implement an audit to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and validity of NSOR records populated by states and territories in October 2009.
OIG Analysis. The actions planned by the FBI are responsive to our recommendation. So that we may close this recommendation to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and validity of NSOR records, please provide the OIG with the audit’s instrument and confirmation that the new audit of jurisdiction registries’ compliance with FBI NSOR procedures and with the SORNA guidelines has been implemented by October 30, 2009.
Recommendation 2. The FBI should implement the Advisory Policy Board-approved changes to NSOR that specifically provide information regarding fugitive status.
Status. Resolved – open.
Summary of the FBI Response. The FBI concurred with this recommendation and stated that the Director of the FBI approved the creation of a new sex offender status field within NSOR in May 2007. The new field is scheduled to be implemented in August 2009. The FBI stated that this enhancement to NSOR will give states and territories a better way to indicate a sex offender’s registration or fugitive status.
OIG Analysis. The actions planned and taken by the FBI are responsive to our recommendation. So that we may close this recommendation, please provide the OIG with confirmation that the sex offender status field within NSOR is operational by August 28, 2009.
Recommendation 3. The USMS should obtain NSOR and the NCIC Wanted Persons File data downloads from the FBI and use that information to manage and conduct fugitive sex offender investigations.
Status. Resolved – open.
Summary of the FBI Response. The FBI concurred with this recommendation and stated that it has received a letter from the USMS dated November 3, 2008, requesting such a data download. The FBI stated that its Criminal Justice Information Services Division is in the process of responding to the USMS’s data request and that it will provide the USMS with data downloads of the NCIC Wanted Person File upon request from the USMS.
OIG Analysis. The actions planned and taken by the FBI are responsive to our recommendation. So that we may close this recommendation, please provide the OIG with a description of the method by which the FBI will transfer data to the USMS and confirmation of the first transfer of NSOR and NCIC Wanted Person File data from the FBI by June 5, 2009.