15 Feb 2016 | Inaccurate records, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency
The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no widespread impact on drinking water. But if you’ve had your ear to the...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...2 Feb 2016 | Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency
The Commonwealth Bank does not currently have advice files for more than one in 10 of the cases registered for its compensation scheme for victims of dodgy financial advice. A CBA update on Tuesday said that of the more than 9000 cases registered under its open advice...
1 Feb 2016 | Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Incomplete records, Operational Failures
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has lost 12 years of gas-line repair records for part of the Bay Area — the largest such gap to emerge since the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion was blamed on incomplete and inaccurate documentation. In testimony before a...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...13 Jan 2016 | Inaccurate records, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records
he Baltimore City Council announced plans Monday to hold an investigative hearing into why hundreds of children are still getting lead poisoning — a preventable condition officials vowed to eradicate six years ago. … A top state environmental official said the...6 Mar 2015 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records
The federal health department has been criticised by the Australian National Audit Office for its administration of a $15 billion agreement with pharmacists. The audit office identified several shortcomings in the department’s administration of the agreement,...18 Nov 2014 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Inaccurate records, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance, Operational Failures, Systemic failure
The police are failing to record more than 800,000 offences, including a quarter of all sexual crimes, reported to them by the public each year, according to a damning official inquiry. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary says it is an indefensible failure by...11 Sep 2014 | Inaccurate records, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Lack of transparency, Non-compliance, Systemic failure
If the mysterious disappearance of 28 700-pound water meters and an $80,000 backhoe didn’t alert you to laughably bad security at the Department of Watershed Management’s warehouses, the city auditor has conveniently documented the failures for you in a scathing...17 Jul 2014 | Exposed through audit, Financial loss, Incomplete records, Operational Failures, Systemic failure
Shoddy record-keeping and weak management inside the Boston Redevelopment Authority have cost Boston’s powerful development agency millions of dollars in unpaid fees and lease payments, an outside audit of the agency has found. The audit, commissioned by Mayor Marty...