This report provides details about an audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the Wyoming Office of the Attorney General, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
This audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the Wyoming Office of the Attorney General, Cheyenne, Wyoming, concluded that the Wyoming Office of the Attorney General’s Division of Victim Services (Wyoming DVS) used its victim assistance funds to enhance victim services in Wyoming. This audit did not identify significant concerns regarding the Wyoming DVS’s allocation plan, selection process, communication of grant requirements to subrecipients, or the grant financial management aspects. Auditors identified deficiencies and areas of improvement related to its recordkeeping for priority area funding requirements and its subrecipient monitoring. The audit also found unsupported pass-through entity expenditures. The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General completed an audit of two Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) victim assistance formula grants awarded by OJP, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to the Wyoming DVS in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Auditors found that the Wyoming DVS has a funding strategy in place and utilized an implementation plan to identify the underserved victim populations. However, the Wyoming DVS did not track the priority areas funding and did not ensure it allocated the minimum 10 percent of funding to the previously underserved population as required. Auditors found the Wyoming DVS’s existing subrecipient monitoring-related policies and procedures to be inadequate. The objective of the audit was to evaluate how the Wyoming Office of the Attorney General’s Division of Victim Services (Wyoming DVS) designed and implemented its crime victim assistance program. To accomplish this objective, we assessed performance in the following areas of grant management: (1) grant program planning and execution, (2) program requirements and performance reporting, (3) grant financial management, and (4) monitoring of subrecipients.