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GAO-23-106484 1 (2023-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaooqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 1 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 10, 2023 The Honorable Merrick B. Garland Attorney General Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Justice Dear Attorney General Garland: The purpose of this letter is to update you on the overall status of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) implementation of our recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that, government-wide, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOJ's recommendation implementation rate was 80 percent. As of January 2023, DOJ had 106 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our June 2022 letter, DOJ has implemented three of our 10 open priority recommendations. In doing so, DOJ is able to assess how the data it obtains and uses support its diversion control activities of controlled substances and prescription drugs, including opioids.3 Further, DOJ demonstrated that its risk assessment process for determining whether the Law Enforcement program is susceptible to significant improper payments is reasonable.4 DOJ also revised its assessment procedures to incorporate steps for coordinating with other federal agencies when assessing state agencies' cybersecurity.5 This step can help reduce the time and resources required by state officials in responding to duplicative assessment activities. DOJ has seven priority recommendations remaining from those we identified in the June 2022 1Priority recommendations are those that we believe warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). 3GAO, Drug Control: Actions Needed to Ensure Usefulness of Data on Suspicious Opioid Orders, GAO-20-118 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 29, 2020). 4GAO, Improper Payments: Selected Agencies Need Improvements in Their Assessments to Better Determine and Document Risk Susceptibility, GAO-19-112 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 10, 2019). 5GAO, Cybersecurity: Selected Federal Agencies Need to Coordinate on Requirements and Assessments of States, GAO-20-123 (Washington, D.C.: May 27, 2020). GAO-23-106484 DOJ Priority Recommendations Page 1

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