Report 2019-116 Recommendation 20 Responses
Report 2019-116: Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Weak Oversight Has Hindered Its Meaningful Implementation (Release Date: May 2020)
Recommendation #20 To: State and Community Corrections, Board of
To ensure that counties include accurate information in their comprehensive plans and year-end reports, Community Corrections should review the information counties submit to it and follow up with them to obtain missing information or to clarify information that seems incorrect.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From September 2023
BSCC will continuously review annual county plans and work with counties to follow up on missing information and clarification information. County reports will be posted on the BSCC's website after review by BSCC staff. BSCC staff will also review county data when compiling the year-end report to the Legislature in March of each year.
- Completion Date: March 2023
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Pending
Consistent with its October 2022 response, Community Corrections again asserted that it has fully implemented our recommendation. However, Community Corrections did not provide any new documentation to substantiate the extent to which it is reviewing the information counties submit, including whether the information appears correct and whether the counties are overly reliant on unspecific expenditure categories.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2022
BSCC will continuously review annual county plans and work with counties to follow up on missing information and clarification information. County reports will be posted on the BSCC's website after review by BSCC staff. BSCC staff will also review county data when compiling the year-end report to the Legislature in March of each year.
- Completion Date: October 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Pending
Although Community Corrections asserts that it reviews annual county plans and works with counties to follow up on missing information and clarification information, it could not substantiate that its review fully addresses the concerns we raised in the audit. Specifically, as we state on page 34 in the report, counties did not always report information correctly and some counties were overly reliant on unspecific expenditure categories. Community Corrections uses a checklist to track the comprehensive plans and year-end reports that it receives from counties and, as part of that checklist, Community Corrections' staff check whether the counties responded to all the questions on the templates. However, Community Corrections could not substantiate the extent to which it is reviewing the counties' responses, including whether those response appear correct and whether the counties are overly reliant on unspecific expenditure categories.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
1-Year Agency Response
BSCC is currently reviewing county annual plans and working with counties to follow up on missing information and clarification of information. County reports will be posted on the BSCC's website after review by BSCC staff. BSCC staff will also review county data when compiling the year-end report to the Legislature in March 2022.
- Estimated Completion Date: March 2022
- Response Date: May 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Pending
6-Month Agency Response
BSCC has followed up with counties on missing information and clarification of information. County reports has been posted on the BSCC's website after review by BSCC staff. BSCC staff will also review county data when compiling the year end report to the Legislature in March 2021.
- Completion Date: October 2020
- Response Date: November 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Partially Implemented
In July 2020, we assessed the status of this recommendation as partially implemented because Community Corrections was able to demonstrate it followed a process for reviewing counties' comprehensive plans, but not for reviewing counties' year-end reports. We continue to assess the status as partially implemented based on Community Corrections' response that its staff will review counties' year-end reports when compiling the year end report to the Legislature in March 2021.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
60-Day Agency Response
BSCC staff developed a review process and is currently reviewing and following up as needed with county plans on missing and clarifying information.
- Completion Date: June 2020
- Response Date: June 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Partially Implemented
Community Corrections has implemented a process to track county submissions, and was able to demonstrate it followed its process for comprehensive plans that counties were recently required to submit. However, until Community Corrections can demonstrate it is performing similar reviews of year-end reports, we will report the status of this recommendation as partially implemented.
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
All Recommendations in 2019-116
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.