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Each year, the U.S. Postal Service experiences an increase in package volume during peak mailing season — Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve — which can significantly strain the Postal Service’s processing and distribution networks. To help handle this increase, the Postal Service creates peak season initiatives. These initiatives are meant to help the Postal Service have the right amount of personnel, resources, and package capacity throughout its processing, transportation, and delivery networks to address weather and increased volume conditions in facilities.
OIG reviewed the security controls of industrial control systems – programmable systems and devices that interact with the physical environment – at three USDA agencies.
Financial Closeout Audit of USAID Resources Managed by Farmers Union of Malawi Under Cooperative Agreement 72061219CA00004, October 1, 2021, to November 30, 2022
Akheem Currie, a former Amtrak passenger engineer who worked aboard Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) trains, was sentenced for second degree assault and fourth degree sex offense in Maryland Circuit Court for Baltimore City on November 21, 2024. On June 27, 2024, a jury for the Circuit Court found Currie guilty of Assault in the Second Degree and Sex Offense in the Fourth Degree. Currie allowed a female passenger onto a MARC train without a ticket and subsequently assaulted her by inappropriately touching and kissing her. Currie received a five-year sentence (suspended, all but time served), and was placed on three years of probation. Additionally, he must submit to a mental health evaluation and treatment and register as a sex offender for 15 years. Currie was terminated October 31, 2024, after his administrative hearing at the company and is not eligible for rehire.
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), completed an investigation into the misuse of an official GPO vehicle.
The Office for Civil Rights Should Enhance Its HIPAA Audit Program to Enforce HIPAA Requirements and Improve the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information
