Open Recommendations

The Office of Cuba Broadcasting should implement a strategic communication plan that conveys journalistic standards objectives and priorities to staff.

The Office of Cuba Broadcasting should create written policies or procedures that define the editorial review process to ensure that all content is reviewed before broadcast.

The Office of Cuba Broadcasting should develop and disseminate to staff written procedures governing how journalistic standards lapses will be addressed, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the various personnel and offices involved.

Voice of America should require all language services to complete the annual program reviews according to network and U.S. Agency for Global Media policies.

Voice of America should develop and distribute to staff a written action plan for each annual program review, to include how action items will be implemented and enforced.

Voice of America should develop and disseminate to staff, including through training, written procedures governing how journalistic standards lapses will be addressed, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the various personnel and offices involved.

Voice of America should clarify the roles and authorities of the Standards Editor in implementing standards-related guidance for all staff.

The U.S. Agency for Global Media should offer the Office of Cuba Broadcasting a Spanish-language option for training on journalistic standards and principles.

Design or redesign control activities for the four risks that have not been fully addressed and that FTA still deems as applicable. These are: a.) Risk of Fraud or Abuse, b.) Recipients May Attempt to Use Funding for a Non-Operating Expense Even Though They Have Furloughed Staff, c.) Private Sector Operators Are Now Eligible to Become Sub-recipients and d.) Limited Capacity of Current Oversight Contracts.

Requires the REAC in coordination with OFO to determine the number of developments and associated units that contain lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards.

Status

We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to determine the cost to eliminate or control the lead-based paint and lead based paint hazards in public housing and the timeframe to complete such work based on the existing funding levels and strategies that could accelerate the timeframe.

We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to assess the lead-based paint hazard reduction activities performed at the 19 developments associated with 18 public housing agencies reviewed that did not implement interim controls and ongoing maintenance and reevaluation activities or adequately document that previously identified lead-based paint had been abated or treated with interim controls and subjected to ongoing maintenance and reevaluati

Revise Directive 06 to include current FECA citations and guidance related to OIG referrals of campaign finance related matters to OGC.

Roles and responsibilities of the SAOGI and other key stakeholders are defined in both the Geospatial Data Strategy and its implementation plan.

The implementation plan for the Geospatial Data Strategy contains detailed action items and milestones, including those for developing a complete and accurate inventory of the Agency’s geospatial data.

Continued coordination with NARA to establish the appropriate level of scientific data for inclusion in NARA-approved records schedules.

Update applicable requirements to require assisted property owners, including PHAs, to maintain adequate documentation to support their determinations that maintenance and hazard reduction activities that disturb surfaces with lead-based paint qualify for the de minimis exemption from the lead-safe work practices under the Lead Safe Housing Rule.

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To address this recommendation, OLHCHH agreed to:

We recommend the Executive Assistant Commissioner, Operations Support, U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Recommendation 1: Refine current and identify new strategies and solutions to manage delays in detainee transfers to partner agencies and communicate these improvements throughout the sector.

We recommend the Del Rio Sector Chief, Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Recommendation 2: Assess whether the Eagle Pass soft-sided facility’s supplemental guidance on the management of detainee property can be developed and implemented sector-wide, and implement where operationally feasible.

Oversee a data integrity review at Del Rio Border Patrol facilities for a sampling of detainee activity logs for 1 month, to verify that the information recorded is accurate. If the problem we identified persists, implement a quality assurance plan and continue to monitor data integrity.

The Under Secretary for Management should develop standard guidance for all reporting entities, clarifying which allegations the Department should report to OIG under the Authorities Act and defining the terms serious misconduct and head of the Department entity, and include affected stakeholders in the development of the guidance.

The Under Secretary for Management should develop a standard approach to tracking reporting dates to ensure compliance with the law and update internal guidance accordingly.

that the Director develop a strategy and structure that integrates information security into the agency’s business operations. This should include an established responsibility for assessing information security risks in all agency programs and operations and providing this analysis to senior leadership, including the ERM Council, for decision-making.

OIG recommended that the Director appoint the chief information security officer to serve on the Enterprise Risk Management Council as a voting member

OIG recommended that that the Director further define and implement the Enterprise Risk Management program to ensure information security risks are communicated and monitored at the system, business process, and entity levels.