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GAO-20-350PR 1 (2020-04-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeazv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 20, 2020 The Honorable William P. Barr Attorney General Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Justice The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2019, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOJ's recommendation implementation rate was 78 percent. As of March 2020, DOJ had 84 open recommendations. Fully implementing all open recommendations could significantly improve DOJ's operations. Since our April 2019 letter, DOJ has implemented seven of our 14 open priority recommendations. In doing so, DOJ: 1. Implemented two recommendations to improve the information that it provides to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) whistleblower complainants about the status of their complaints. 2. Took actions to ensure privacy and accuracy of the FBI's face recognition capabilities, which implemented four open priority recommendations. Specifically, DOJ improved its privacy impact assessment development process, which included developing an approval template and implementing procedures to expedite the review process. In addition, the FBI conducted audits to determine whether users of the FBI's face recognition technology were conducting face image searches in accordance with FBI policy requirements. Further, the FBI conducted tests to verify that its face recognition system is sufficiently accurate for all allowable candidate list sizes and adjudicating all candidate photos returned by the system. Finally, the FBI surveyed federal and state partners about the face recognition technology they use in order to provide it with information on the accuracy of these systems. 3. Implemented a recommendation in the technology area to more efficiently use information in (1) the National Crime Information Center's Missing Persons and 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operation, 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 2019, GAO-20=1 SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov.19, 2019). GAO-20-350PR DOJ Priority Recommendations Page 1

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