NCJ Number
251029
Date Published
July 2017
Length
39 pages
Annotation
This report presents the findings and methodology of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General's (OIG's) audit investigation of allegations against employees at the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) regarding their administration of a grant issued by OJJDP to Wisconsin's Office of Justice Assistance (Wisconsin OJA) under OJJDP's Title II Part B Formula Grant Program (grant program).
Abstract
The two allegations investigated in this OIG audit stemmed from a September 2014 report of the OIG Investigations Division regarding its investigation into allegations that the Wisconsin OJA submitted fraudulent compliance data to OJJDP in order to receive funds under the Federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA). That investigation concluded that Wisconsin did submit inaccurate compliance reports to the OJJDP, failed to perform required physical inspections of secure detention facilities housing juveniles, did not have an adequate monitoring system to ensure compliance with grant requirements, and did not accurately define its monitoring universe as required by the JJDPA of 2002. Subsequent to the issuance of this report, the OIG received seven allegations that OJJDP officials engaged in inappropriate conduct related to the underlying program. The audit investigation covered in the current report addresses two of these allegations. One allegation is that OJJDP employees failed to assure compliance with JJDPA core protections. The second allegation is that OJJDP employees failed to investigate allegations that Wisconsin was falsifying detention data in order to receive Federal funding under the JJDPA grant program. Overall, this audit substantiated the first allegation and identified concerns related to the second allegation. It recommends that the OJJDP strengthen its grant program compliance monitoring procedures and periodically redistribute an Office of Justice Programs (OJP) policy that requires staff to immediately report suspected programmatic non-compliance to the OJJDP Administrator. 2 tables and appended supplementary material