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Policies and Procedures Governing Invocation of the State Secrets Privilege
From the Attorney General: "I am issuing today new Department of Justice policies and administrative procedures that will provide greater accountability and reliability in the invocation of the state secrets privilege in litigation. The Department is adopting these policies and procedures to strengthen public confidence that the U.S. Government will invoke the privilege in court only when genuine and significant harm to national defense or foreign relations is at stake and only to the extent necessary to safeguard those interests. The policies and procedures set forth in this Memorandum are effective as of October 1, 2009, and the Department shall apply them in all cases in which a government department or agency thereafter seeks to invoke the state secrets privilege in litigation."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
2009-09-23
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Office on Violence Against Women Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecution Grants Awarded to the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
"The Office of the Inspector General has completed an audit of the Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Enforcement grant (grant number 2004-WR-AX-0048) awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to the West Virginia Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). OVW awarded the 2-year, $552,334, grant to DCJS on August 2, 2004. The grant program is designed to strengthen the safety of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, and child abuse by creating and enhancing collaborative partnerships between criminal justice agencies, victim services providers, and community organizations to respond to such crimes. OVW provided a two year supplemental award, dated September 12, 2006, for $552,334. We conducted our audit to determine whether: claimed costs were allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and terms and conditions; and grant objectives were achieved. Our audit found that DCJS generally complied with grant requirements, and is in the process of achieving the grant objectives. However, DCJS charged $21,088 of labor costs, which is not in compliance with the requirements of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-87, $4,984 in associated fringe benefit costs, and $11,256 of unsupported other direct costs. Further, we noted the grantee made errors in both Financial Status Reports and semi-annual Progress Reports; and DCJS does not have a mechanism in place to measure the impact of grant funded services on victims of domestic violence. Our report contains 8 recommendations. We discussed the results of our audit with DCJS officials and have included their comments in the report as applicable."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-07
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Office on Violence against Women Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program Administered by the Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware
"The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Audit Division, has completed an audit of an Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program award, grant number 2005-WL-AX-0056, awarded to the Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI). Between July 2005 and September 2007, OVW awarded CLASI a total of $891,422 distributed through a grant and two supplements. The purpose of the OVW grant program was to provide legal services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking. The objective of the CLASI grant was to provide legal representation to victims in family court matters, including divorce and divorce-related matters, and other matters related to domestic violence. The objective of [the] audit was to determine whether reimbursements claimed for costs under the grant were allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and the terms and conditions of the grant. [The audit] also evaluated CLASI's program performance in meeting grant objectives and overall accomplishments."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-07
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Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Implementation of the Sentinel Project
"This report is the seventh in the series of reviews that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has conducted to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) progress in developing and implementing Sentinel, its new information and investigative case management system. According to the FBI's original plan, established in March 2006, Sentinel would be developed in four phases with the total cost estimated at $425 million and the completion date was estimated to be December 2009. Our prior reports examined the development and implementation of Sentinel, and in those reports we expressed concerns about Sentinel's overall progress, schedule, increased costs, and inability to satisfy user requirements. [...]. In this report, we examine the current status of the Sentinel project. We discuss the deployment of Sentinel's Phase 2 as of July 2010, and we assess the functionality of the system delivered by Phase 2 of Sentinel, including comparing what the FBI intended to deliver to its agents and analysts and what was actually delivered. We also describe the FBI's recent decision to change the partial stop-work order for Phases 3 and 4 to a full stop-work order. We discuss our concerns that the implementation of Sentinel is delayed, over budget, and in danger of not delivering a fully functioning automated case management system. Finally, we discuss the status of the FBI's newly announced plans to complete Sentinel, and our initial questions and concerns about that new strategy."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2010-10
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010
"This audit report contains the Annual Financial Statements of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Cotton & Company LLP performed the audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2011-01
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Audit of the United States Marshals Service's Oversight of its Judicial Facilities Security Program
"The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is the primary provider of court security services to the federal judiciary. The USMS's Judicial Facilities Security Program, which is administered by USMS headquarters and funded by the federal judiciary, provides 2 main services to more than 400 U.S. federal court facilities nationwide: (1) court security officers (CSO), and (2) security systems and equipment, including X-ray machines, surveillance cameras, duress alarms, and judicial chambers entry control devices. The CSOs deployed by the USMS to federal court facilities are contract workers procured through contracts with private security firms in each of the 12 federal judicial circuits. As of June 2010, over 5,000 CSOs were assigned to federal court facilities throughout the United States. As with CSOs, the security systems obtained by the USMS are also obtained through a contract with a private security provider. The USMS seeks to ensure the safety of federal court facilities and judicial proceedings through the use of the CSO program and the security systems it deploys. In fiscal year (FY) 2009, approximately $370 million were allocated by the federal judiciary for the USMS's court security services."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2010-11
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Recent Inspector General Reports Concerning the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Statement of Glenn A. Fine Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, February 24, 2010
From the opening statement of Glenn A. Fine: "The FBI faces significant challenges in handling its many critical duties. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the FBI has reoriented its focus to make counterterrorism its top priority, but at the same time it must continue to address its many pressing traditional law enforcement responsibilities. As part of the OIG's ongoing oversight work, we have reviewed a variety of important FBI programs. At the request of the subcommittee, I will mainly focus my testimony on three recent OIG reviews: (1) coordination between the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in explosives investigations; (2) the FBI's foreign language translation program; and (3) the FBI's and the Department of Justice's coordination of efforts to combat gang violence. Within the past year we have also issued several other reports on important FBI programs. My testimony briefly summarizes the findings of some of these reviews. Finally, my testimony highlights several ongoing OIG reviews of FBI programs."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
Fine, Glenn A.
2010-02-24
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Explosives Investigation Coordination between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) share jurisdiction for investigating federal explosives crimes. Despite attempts at coordination and division of jurisdiction, these components have historically developed separate and often conflicting approaches to explosives investigations and related activities such as explosives training, information sharing, and forensic analysis. This Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit examined the Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight and the FBI's and ATF's operations of explosives-related activities from fiscal year (FY) 2003 through April 2009. The objective of this review was to evaluate the level of coordination between the FBI and ATF in explosive investigations, including the effectiveness of explosive incident protocols to determine lead agency jurisdiction, the extent of information sharing and consolidation of explosives data, the degree of training coordination, and the use of laboratory resources for explosives analysis. We conducted interviews with over 100 ATF and FBI employees, including personnel from both components' headquarters and in 8 locations with both ATF and FBI field divisions or offices."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2009-10
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Federal Bureau of Investigation's Foreign Language Translation Program
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) ability to translate foreign language material is critical to the FBI counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigations. Without accurate and timely translations, the FBI's ability to effectively investigate terrorist and criminal enterprises that communicate in a foreign language is significantly hampered. The FBI's Language Services Section (LSS) is responsible for overseeing the FBI's Foreign Language Program (FLP), including managing the FBI's translation efforts and the linguists who translate into English the vast amounts of foreign language material that the FBI collects. The LSS is also responsible for collecting and reporting data on the FBI's collection and review of material that is entirely in English. In fiscal year (FY) 2008 alone, the FBI collected 878,383 hours of foreign language and English only audio material, 1,610,091 pages of text, and 28,795,212 electronic files. In 2004 and 2005, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (DIG) completed audits of the FBI's foreign language translation operations. The 2004 audit found that the FBI had significant backlogs of unreviewed audio material awaiting translation that had been collected in its highest priority cases. Additionally, we found weaknesses within the FBI's FLP that hindered the FBI's ability to review and translate the counterterrorism and counterintelligence audio material it collected. In addition, the FBI did not consistently adhere to its standards for reviewing the work of its linguists."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2009-10
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U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress: October 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009
"This Semiannual reporting period marks an important milestone for the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) - the 20th anniversary of the creation of our office. The OIG began operations on April 14, 1989, with employees transferred from a variety of Department of Justice (Department) components. We have come a long way since that first day, expanding our jurisdiction throughout the Department, establishing seven Investigations Division field offices and seven Regional Audit offices throughout the country, building our Evaluation and Inspections Division, and creating an Oversight and Review Division to conduct special investigations and reviews. From our original workforce of about 300 employees in 1989, we have 35 'charter members' of the OIG who are still with us 20 years later."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2009-04
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Sentinel Audit V: Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Case Management System
"The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is performing audits of the Sentinel project at the request of the FBI Director and congressional appropriations and oversight committees. This audit is the fifth in a series of audits that the OIG has conducted to evaluate the FBI's progress in developing and implementing Sentinel. In our fourth audit, we reported that the FBI resolved most of the concerns we had identified in our first three Sentinel audits. However, in our fourth audit we identified the following areas that we believed warranted continued monitoring: identification of the data that will be stored in Sentinel, the data collection process, identification of the paper forms that will be replaced with electronic forms, and identification of the statistics that will be stored in Sentinel and how those statistics will be collected. The objectives of this current audit, the fifth in our ongoing review of Sentinel's progress, were to: evaluate the FBI's implementation of Phase 2 of the Sentinel project, including the project's cost, schedule, and performance; and assess the FBI's progress in resolving concerns identified in the OIG's previous Sentinel audits. Future OIG audits will continue to examine the progress of Sentinel over its remaining phases and assess whether Sentinel's cost, schedule, performance, and technical benchmarks are being met."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2009-11
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Top Management Challenges in the Dept of Justice, 2000
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Department of Justice, issued a comprehensive report in August 2000 that found the INS had compromised the integrity of the naturalization process during its 1996 effort to reduce the backlog of citizenship applications (known as "Citizenship USA"). The OIG made 25 recommendations that focus primarily on actions the INS needs to take to improve the quality of its naturalization adjudications, outlined in this report, as well as recommendations in combating increasing terrorist threats.
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2000-12-01
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Guidelines Regarding Disclosure to the Director of Central Intelligence and Homeland Security Officials of Foreign Intelligence Acquired in the Course of a Criminal Investigation
The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56, 115 Stat. 272, 389, enacted into law certain requirements for the sharing of information by Federal law enforcement agencies with the intelligence community. Specifically, section 905(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act provides that "the Attorney General, or the head of any other department or agency of the Federal Government with law enforcement responsibilities, shall expeditiously disclose to the Director of Central Intelligence, pursuant to guidelines developed by the Attorney General in consultation with the Director, foreign intelligence acquired by an element of the Department of Justice or an element of such department or agency, as the case may be, in the course of a criminal investigation." These guidelines apply to all elements of the Department of Justice having criminal investigative or prosecutorial responsibilities and to all other departments and agencies of the Federal government having law enforcement responsibilities (hereinafter, collectively, "Federal Law Enforcement Agencies"). These guidelines do not apply to agencies that provide support to criminal investigations, but that do not themselves conduct criminal investigations (e, the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network).
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
2002-09-03
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Review of Allegations of a Continuing Double Standard of Discipline at the FBI
"In November 2002, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report entitled, 'A Review of Allegations of a Double Standard of Discipline at the FBI,' which reviewed complaints from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees alleging that the FBI's system of discipline was unfair because senior managers were treated more leniently than rank and file employees. These findings were based in part on the low number of cases involving senior managers and the difficulty in comparing individual cases, and increased perceptions among employees that a double standard of discipline exists within the FBI."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2003-11
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Review of the FBI's Performance in Deterring, Detecting, and Investigating the Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen
"In this report, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Justice (DOJ) examines the performance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in deterring, detecting, and investigating the espionage of Robert Philip Hanssen, a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Hanssen's espionage began in November 1979 - three years after he joined the FBI - and continued intermittently until his arrest in February 2001, just two months before his mandatory retirement date. In addition to its management responsibility to detect espionage among its employees, the FBI is the lead agency for detecting and investigating espionage committed in the United States."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2003-08
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Top Management Challenges in the Dept of Justice, 2002
"Attached to this memorandum is the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) 2002 list of the Top Management Challenges facing the Department of Justice (Department). This list has been created annually since 1998, initially in response to congressional requests, but in recent years as part of the Department's annual Performance and Accountability Report. Also included is commentary on how to best integrate the INS into Homeland Security Affairs."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2002-11-08
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Top Management Challenges in the Department of Justice, 2001
"Accordingly, the first objective in the Department's Strategic Plan for 2001-2006 is to protect America against the threat of terrorism. The three strategic objectives under this goal emphasize prevention and disruption of terrorist operations before an incident occurs, investigation of terrorist incidents to bring perpetrators to justice, and prosecution of individuals who have committed or intend to commit terrorist acts against the United States. The Strategic Plan notes the significant management challenge facing the Department as it seeks to effectively manage its counterterrorism program and avoid potential gaps in coverage or duplicate services provided by state and local governments. In separate audits, a mix of cases investigated by the FBI will be examined, as well as the FBI's management of its information technology (IT) projects."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2001-12-31?
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Organizational Analysis and Summary of Duty for the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Justice, Regarding The Patriot Act
"The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is an independent entity that reports to both the Attorney General and Congress. The OIG's mission is to investigate allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse in DOJ programs and personnel and to promote economy and efficiency in DOJ operations. The OIG now has jurisdiction to review programs and personnel in all DOJ components, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the U.S. Attorneys' Offices, and other DOJ organizations."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2002-12
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Supplemental Report on September 11 Detainees' Allegations of Abuse at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York
"This report details the investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning allegations that staff members of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, physically and verbally abused aliens who were detained in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In June 2003 an earlier report evaluating the treatment of 762 detainees who were held on immigration charges in connection with the investigation of the September 11 attacks was issued. In that report it was noted that the investigation into verbal and physical abuse towards detainees' was not completed. This new report details the findings and conclusions from the investigation and has been forwarded to the BOP for their review and appropriate disciplinary action."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2003-12
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September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks
"On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four airplanes and flew two of them into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a field in southwestern Pennsylvania before it could strike a target in Washington, D.C. The attacks killed more than 3,100 people, including all 246 people aboard the 4 airplanes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) immediately initiated a massive investigation, called 'PENTTBOM,' into this coordinated terrorist attack. The FBI investigation focused on identifying the terrorists who hijacked the airplanes and anyone who aided their efforts. In addition, the FBI worked with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to prevent follow-up attacks in this country and against U.S. interests abroad. Shortly after the attacks, the Attorney General directed the FBI and other federal law enforcement personnel to use "every available law enforcement tool" to arrest persons who "participate in, or lend support to, terrorist activities." One of the principal responses by law enforcement authorities after the September 11 attacks was to use the federal immigration laws to detain aliens suspected of having possible ties to terrorism. Within 2 months of the attacks, law enforcement authorities had detained, at least for questioning, more than 1,200 citizens and aliens nationwide. Many of these individuals were questioned and subsequently released without being charged with a criminal or immigration offense. Many others, however, were arrested and detained for violating federal immigration law."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2003-04
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Investigation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's Citizenship USA Initiative
"This investigation by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) examined the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) 'Citizenship USA' initiative of fiscal year 1996. Beginning in 1993, the demand for naturalization began to increase at a staggering rate and application backlogs developed at INS offices throughout the country. By June 1995, INS was receiving applications for naturalization at a rate twice as high as it had the previous year. INS projected that without a serious effort to reduce this application backlog, by the summer of 1996 an eligible applicant would have to wait three years from the date of application to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen. On August 31, 1995, INS Commissioner Doris M. Meissner announced 'Citizenship USA' (CUSA), an initiative to reduce the backlog of pending naturalization applications to the point where an eligible applicant would be naturalized within six months of application. The goal of the initiative was to reach this level of processing 'currency' within one year. The effort focused on the workload in the five districts in the country--dubbed 'Key Cities' for CUSA--which then had the largest application backlogs: Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Chicago. To reach the CUSA goal, INS dramatically increased its naturalization workforce in the Key Cities, opened new offices dedicated to naturalization adjudication, and engaged new processing strategies in an effort to 'streamline' the naturalization process."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2000-07
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Review of the FBI's Response to John Roberts' Statements on 60 Minutes
"This report describes the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) investigation of allegations that officials in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) retaliated against John Roberts, a Unit Chief in the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), for comments he made on the television program 60 Minutes. On the October 27, 2002, 60 Minutes broadcast, Roberts made statements critical of the FBI's investigation and adjudication of employee misconduct, suggesting that there was a continuing double standard of discipline in the FBI. After the broadcast, allegations arose that senior FBI officials, including Robert Jordan, the newly appointed Assistant Director (AD) in charge of FBI OPR, engaged in a course of retaliatory conduct against Roberts. Allegedly, Jordan angrily confronted Roberts and chastised him for his statements on 60 Minutes, referred Roberts to the OIG for investigation because of his appearance on 60 Minutes, criticized Roberts during an FBI OPR all-employees meeting at which Roberts was not present, and selected another FBI OPR Unit Chief who had less experience than Roberts to be the FBI OPR Acting Deputy Assistant Director (DAD). Jordan and other FBI officials denied that they engaged in any retaliatory actions against Roberts for his statements on 60 Minutes."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2003-02
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Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA Patriot Act [January 22, 2003]
"The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is an independent entity that reports to both the Attorney General and Congress. The OIG's mission is to investigate allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse in DOJ programs and personnel and to promote economy and efficiency in DOJ operations. The OIG now has jurisdiction to review programs and personnel in all DOJ components, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the U.S. Attorneys' Offices, and other DOJ organizations. Enclosed is the report required by Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Public Law 107-56. Section 1001 directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to undertake a series of actions related to civil rights or civil liberties allegations against Department of Justice employees and to report on these actions every six months to the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives. This report, our second under Section 1001, describes the OIG's activities in implementing these responsibilities for the six-month period from June 15, 2002, until December 15, 2002."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2003-01-22
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Bombs in Brooklyn: How the Two Illegal Aliens Arrested for Plotting to Bomb the New York Subway Entered and Remained in the United States
"In this report, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) examines how two aliens, Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer (Mezer) and Lafi Khalil (Khalil), entered and remained in the United States before they were arrested on July 31, 1997, in a Brooklyn apartment for allegedly planning to bomb the New York City subway system. After their arrest, it was quickly discovered that both were Palestinians who were in the United States illegally. Mezer had been arrested three times in the previous thirteen months attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada. The first two times, he was voluntarily returned to Canada. After the third apprehension, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began formal deportation proceedings against Mezer, but he was released on bond while the proceedings were pending. After his release, Mezer filed a political asylum application in which he claimed that he suffered a fear of persecution if he were returned to Israel, in part because Israeli authorities falsely believed he was a member of the terrorist organization Hamas. It was also discovered that Khalil was in the United States illegally, having entered on a tourist visa but having remained here after the visa expired."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
1998-03
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Letter from Asst Attorney General Moschella to Congressman Hastert reguarding the Otter Amendment
A letter from Asst Attorney General Moschella strongly objecting to the amendment offered by Congressman Otter, and adopted by the House of Representatives. Moschella states that the amendment could result in the intimidation of witnesses, destruction of evidence, flight from prosecution, physical injury and even death.
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Legislative Affairs
Moschella, William E., Asst Attorney General
2003-07-25
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Attorney General's Annual Report to Congress and Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons: Fiscal Year 2009
"This report, the seventh submitted to Congress since 2004, describes the U.S. government's comprehensive campaign to combat TIP during Fiscal Year 2009 (FY 2009), including efforts to (1) protect victims by providing benefits and services; (2) investigate and prosecute human trafficking crimes; and (3) prevent further trafficking-related crimes. In addition to reporting this information, the report includes an assessment of U.S. government activities based on improvements since the last annual report and recommendations for further improvement."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
2010-07
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Audit of Outside Employment by Staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory Division's DNA Units
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Laboratory Division supports the federal and non-federal criminal justice systems by: (1) conducting scientific analyses of physical evidence; (2) providing specialized scientific and technical support to ongoing investigations; (3) developing an automated database of DNA profiles from evidence and individuals for examination and comparison; (4) providing expert testimony in court; and (5) providing specialized forensic science training, analysis, and technical assistance to crime laboratory personnel and crime scene training to law enforcement personnel. The FBI Laboratory Division is also the custodian of the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which is composed of multiple indices, including databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, forensic evidence, arrestees, missing persons, and unidentified human remains." The objective of this Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General audit were to: "(1) identify and assess the procedures through which FBI Laboratory DNA staff request and obtain approval for outside employment, (2) determine if DNA staff and FBI management followed the established procedures regarding outside employment, and (3) determine whether outside employment by DNA staff creates the reality or appearance of conflicts of interest."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-03
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Audit of the Office of Justice Programs' Monitoring and Oversight of Recovery Act and Non-Recovery Act Grants
"The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is the Department of Justice's (Department) largest granting agency. Its grant programs are intended to improve the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems, increase knowledge about crime and related issues, and assist crime victims. For fiscal years (FY) 2008 through 2010, OJP made almost 14,000 grant awards, totaling more than $7.7 billion to state and local law enforcement and community organizations. This included more than 4,000 grants, totaling about $2.8 billion, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)." This Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report evaluates "the adequacy of OJP's plans and efforts for monitoring and overseeing Recovery Act and non-Recovery Act grants. The scope of this audit covered OJP's grant monitoring and oversight efforts planned or conducted in FYs 2009 and 2010. Because OJP shares some monitoring responsibilities with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), the Department's other principal granting agencies, this report also refers to those agencies."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-03
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Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA Patriot Act (as Required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56) [February 2011]
"Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) to undertake a series of actions related to claims of civil rights or civil liberties violations allegedly committed by DOJ employees. It also requires the OIG to provide semiannual reports to Congress on the implementation of the OIG's responsibilities under Section 1001. This report, the eighteenth since enactment of the legislation in October 2001, summarizes the OIG's Section 1001-related activities from July1, 2010 through December 31, 2010."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2011-01
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Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (Redacted)
From the Background: "The Department of Justice (Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) undertook this review to examine certain actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department during an FBI investigation opened on July 31, 2016, known as 'Crossfire Hurricane,' into whether individuals associated with the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2019-12
