Open Recommendations

We recommend CPB require NewsHour to identify the corrective actions to ensure its future compliance with CPB grant requirements.

We recommend CPB add a requirement to CPB’s production grant proposal requirements that the use of rate cards must be approved in advance by CPB, the rate card methodology must be documented and shared with CPB as part of its budget documentation, and the various rates for manpower services, facilities, and equipment must be traceable to the grantee’s official accounting records to supports its actual costs.

We recommend that CPB require NewsHour to submit the required ancillary revenue reports to CPB.

We recommend that CPB require NewsHour to identify its corrective actions to ensure future compliance with ancillary revenues reporting requirements.

We recommend that CPB require NewsHour to provide the required reports directly to CPB.

We recommend that CPB require NewsHour to identify the corrective actions it will take to ensure future compliance with final financial reporting requirements.

Ensure timely dental care for advanced procedures is provided to detainees.

Ensure that all detainee grievances receive responses within the required 5 days and the grievances log is accurate.

Ensure detainee detention files include all submitted requests.

Ensure ICE personnel provide frequent opportunities for informal contact with detainees by adhering to the weekly visitation schedule posted in the housing units and by recording their visits in the appropriate logs.

Ensure the posting of all required information, including:

Ensure compliance with standards for kitchen cleanliness and inventory control, including that: • kitchen workers with facial hair wear beard guards when working in the food preparation or serving areas, • inventory control processes are in place to discard spoiled or expired food, and • a standard operating procedure exists for clearly labeling food expiration dates.

Ensure the Caroline facility medical staff are using the most current treatment guidance for chronic illnesses.

Determine whether SSA made inaccurate Workers' Compensation and Public Disability Benefits' (WC/PDB) offset determinations and improperly paid 13,033 beneficiaries with inaccurate WC/PDB information in its records.

Negotiate with the states to establish data matches to obtain WC/PDB information to help ensure SSA correctly applies WC/PDB offsets.

Establish system controls to identify cases likely to have incorrect WC/PDB offsets and/or reverse offset determinations.

Update policy to require that employees process Modernized Development Worksheet (MDW) requests within set timeframes.

Implement controls to ensure employees take all actions requested before they close MDWs.

FDA should give greater weight to retailers' past noncompliance when taking enforcement actions against retailers with histories of violations.

FDA should determine whether variation in inspection activity on the basis of neighborhoods' socioeconomic status is appropriate and the extent to which it is meeting FDA's objective for protecting vulnerable populations.

Develop additional strategies and solutions to manage delays in detainee transfers to partners and implement these improvements throughout the El Paso sector when the holding facilities in the sector are over capacity.

Establish performance targets aligned with the key objectives of a new loyalty program and establish parameters to actively monitor progress for effective program management.

Develop a comprehensive communication strategy for a new loyalty program that promotes awareness of functionality for prospective, and once enrolled, ongoing customers.

The auditors recommend that Chief Information Officer require the Department and FSA to take immediate correctiveactions to implement enhanced monitoring procedures to allow for timely review of system authorization packages andappropriate authorization prior to submission into CSAM.

The auditors recommend that the Chief Information Officer require the Department to develop and implement an effectivequality control review process for its policies and procedures.