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GAO-21-371PR 1 (2021-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaolwy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 30, 2021 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 provide an update on the overall status of the 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 2020, 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 89 percent. As of March 2021, DOJ had 112 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our April 2020 letter, DOJ has implemented nine of our 18 open priority recommendations. In doing so, DOJ: - improved the accuracy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) face recognition capabilities and improved the public's understanding of how the FBI uses and protects personal information; - assessed progress toward the department's goal of more efficiently handling FBI whistleblower retaliation complaints; - developed better ways to assess its efforts to combat illicit opioids; and - took actions to improve its hiring process for immigration judges and oversee implementation of an electronic-filing system for immigration courts. DOJ has nine priority recommendations remaining from those we identified in the April 2020 letter. We ask for your attention to the remaining priority recommendations. We are also adding three new recommendations which are related to improving the cost management of the federal 1 Priority 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. 2 GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2020, GAO-21-4-SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 16, 2020). GAO-21-371PR DOJ Priority Recommendations Page 1

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