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| Gov. Mary Fallin requests audit of Oklahoma Corrections Department |
| By http://newsok.com/gov.-mary-fallin-requests-audit-of-oklahoma-corrections-department/article/3860975 |
| Published: 07/11/2013 |
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Gov. Mary Fallin has asked state Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones to audit the Oklahoma Corrections Department and assess whether the department's current structure “is in the best interests of the taxpayers of Oklahoma.” “I hereby request that your office conduct an investigatory, operational and performance audit of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections,” Fallin said in a letter received Monday by the auditor. The state auditor said it is routine for the governor to request an audit during a change in leadership at a state agency. Recent events surrounding the Corrections Department have been anything but routine. Justin Jones announced his resignation as executive director of the department three weeks ago after the governor expressed shaken confidence in his leadership. Fallin questioned the fiscal management of the agency after learning that corrections staff members had been urgently requesting a $6.4 million supplemental appropriation at a time when it had about $22 million in three agency revolving funds. Corrections officials then withdrew their supplemental funding request. The Oklahoman subsequently disclosed that corrections officials had grossly underreported the amount of cash held in two key agency revolving funds to Fallin as she was preparing her budget recommendations. Fallin's audit request does not specifically ask the state auditor to look into those issues. It does, however, ask the auditor to assess the current structure of the department and review a 2007 audit of the Corrections Department by Florida-based MGT of America and determine whether the agency implemented any of its recommendations. One recommendation of the 2007 audit was that the board that oversees the Corrections Department be abolished or reduced to an advisory role. MGT auditors recommended that the department be made a cabinet-level agency with a director appointed by the governor. Read More. |
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