3 Feb 2016 | Inaccurate records, Inadequate Systems, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records, Systemic failure
Government oversight officials informed Congress on Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration continues to operate in disarray, failing to record basic security details for thousands of employees and not tracking official IDs and badges that allow...
22 Jan 2016 | Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records
raining of roughly 200 supervisors at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in the handling of public records as well as other steps to improve a broken and possibly illegal system of not keeping emails are repairs Sheriff Mike Williams said have taken place since the...
20 Nov 2014 | Catastrophes, Inaccurate records, Systemic failure
Poor recordkeeping by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) relating to the On the Runs (OTRs) scheme for fugitive IRA members may have allowed a murderer to walk free. The NIO ran a scheme formulated by the last Labour government at the request of Sinn Fein which saw...
20 Mar 2014 | Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Lack of transparency, Uncategorized
Two employees at Scotland Yard were ordered to shred a “lorry-load” of police corruption intelligence, according to evidence submitted to a damning review of the Metropolitan Police. Top-secret material gathered during a four-year investigation, codenamed Operation...
14 Dec 2013 | Inadequate Systems, Systemic failure
Following the murder of Jill Meagher , the Victorian government asked retired High Court judge Ian Callinan to review the parole board. In his findings, Justice Callinan portrayed a board that was overworked and struggling with an antique file system. “The...
21 Mar 2013 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems, Operational Failures
Recordkeeping practices at Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) remain in the spotlight at the ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into the release of sensitive documents from the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the landmark 1980s investigation into into state...
8 Mar 2013 | Inadequate Systems, Operational Failures
A coroner has called for “root and branch” gun licensing reform after ruling three women shot in a house in County Durham were unlawfully killed… In his inquest judgement, (The coroner Andrew Tweddle ) described the deaths as...
9 Sep 2012 | Inadequate Systems, Lack of transparency, Operational Failures
LAWYERS are using a landmark police courier system – praised for helping fix the state’s DNA backlog crisis – to argue for evidence to be thrown out of criminal trials. … Lawyers are arguing that lax record keeping from the time DNA samples...
8 Aug 2012 | Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records
KwaZulu-Natal – Hundreds of guns from police station exhibit rooms across KwaZulu-Natal are missing or unaccounted for because of poor record keeping, an audit has found. The preliminary findings of the check have prompted provincial police commissioner...
5 Jul 2012 | Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Operational Failures
BELLEVILLE, Ont. – A whopping backlog in the RCMP’s national crime records database shows no sign of getting better soon, the force has admitted. A spokesman for the national police agency told QMI Agency there are 430,000 criminal records waiting to be filed...
15 Apr 2012 | Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction
NSW POLICE broke the law when they destroyed CCTV footage crucial to a workplace safety investigation into an officer’s exposure to an unknown substance in a drug safe. NSW State Records received complaints in October and November 2010 about the disposal of CCTV...
30 Mar 2012 | Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office is accused of deleting thousands of emails and other electronic information, prompting an outside review of possible destruction of public records, according to documents obtained by the ABC15 Investigators. Pima County Attorney...
21 Mar 2012 | Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Systemic failure
KITCHENER — The federal government is talking about law and order, but it needs to get its own house in order, says a Kitchener judge upset at the huge backlog in the RCMP’s criminal records database. Read more: The Record, March 21,...
1 Feb 2012 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Exposed through audit, Inadequate Systems, Lack of transparency
A recent audit by the NSW Audit Office criticised two state agencies for lack of transparency in contracting. NSW Police and NSW Health failed to produce records justifying a range of contract extensions worth $15million. Read more: ITNews February 1,...
12 Dec 2011 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems
Canada’s privacy commissioner says she has found “disturbing gaps” in the way the RCMP manages sensitive information in some of its databases, including records related to pardoned offences. Privacy watchdog Jennifer Stoddart’s findings are contained in an audit...
