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GGD-92-19R 1 (1992-07-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackca0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAo United States Geneal Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Generl Government Division July 6, 1992 Sheriff Sherman Block Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department 211 W. Temple Street Los Angeles, California 90012 147042 Dear Sheriff Block: On June 26, 1992, we testified before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, House Committee on the Judiciary on the Gang Reporting, Evaluation, and Tracking (GREAT) system and its implications for a national gang information network (GAO/GGD-92-52). Our work was done at the request of the Chairman of the Subcommittee. We were asked to examine various aspects of the GREAT system, its records, and its controls and safeguards. While we found that most of GREAT's controls and safeguards appeared to be generally adequate, we identified certain issues that you may want to consider to increase the accountability and integrity of the system. First, we found that requests for gang member information from law enforcement agencies that were not a part of the system frequently were not being recorded by officers responding to such requests. We believe that recording such off-line requests provides an audit trail that is important for accountability by protecting against possible misuse of the disseminated information. We discussed this matter with Sergeant Wes McBride, the Coordinator for GREAT, who agreed with our finding. He said that he would follow up with the designer of the GREAT software to determine whether off-line requests could be recorded more efficiently and effectively by making an entry directly on the gang member record. We discuss this issue in more detail on page 4 of our testimony. Second, GREAT has never been audited. We believe that independent audits to assure that system controls and safeguards are in place and functioning as intended are essential for establishing and maintaining a system's integrity. We understand that the primary reason the GREAT system has never been audited is lack of funding. We can GAO/GGD-92-19R L.A. County Sheriff's Gang Tracking System O S'' 1-- P O 47 04 a.

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