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HRD-77-78 1 (1977-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabyp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: )COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES 7 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20545 77 MAR 3 0 1977 B-16403!(l) The Honorable Birch Bayh LM100612 United States Senate Dear Senator Bayh: Pursuant to your letter of December 18, 1975, and subsequent discussions with your office, we made a limited review of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In your letter, you expressed deep concern that problems in OCR's management and use of resources had seriously impaired its effectiveness in carrying out its Federal civil rights enforcement responsibilities. Similar concerns have been expressed by other members of the Congress and by a substantial number of civil rights groups over the past several years who charge that OCR has failed to adequately protect the civil rights of racial and ethnic minority groups, women, and handicapped persons. Accordingly, you requested that we review OCR's management of its civil rights enforcement responsibilities with particular emphasis on the way OCR was using its resources. Our review was performed at OCR's Washington, D.C. headauarters and its New York and Philadelphia regional offices. As requested, we inquired into OCR's appropria- tions, staffing, complaint processing and compliance review policies and procedures, resources expended on various enforcement activities, and the results/accom- plishments achieved by OCR under each of the Federal civil rights laws for which it has enforcement respon- sibility. A general across-the-board absence of basic management information, however, severely hampered our audit work in each of these areas and precluded a more detailed evaluation of OCR's operations. This and other management problems observed during the course of our limited review are summarized below. HRD-77-78

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