State Agencies
Department problems related to investigating, taking enforcement action against, and monitoring licensed out-of-home care providers could result in risky or unhealthy environments for children in out-of-home care.
FCRB reviewed cases of children in out-of-home care within required time frames and judges reported some information in FCRB’s local board reports provided for child dependency case reviews is useful...
Board has implemented several processes for overseeing charter holders’ academic, financial, and operational performance, but its financial framework does not always identify charter holders’ financial difficulties, which is necessary to...
System and Legislature have taken various steps to improve pension plans’ sustainability and ability of public safety and corrections officers’ pension plans to meet retirement obligations for plan members, but...
Department developed processes to meet various statutory responsibilities but failed to fully address fraud and security incidents, potentially not notifying affected customers and not recovering public monies, and had identified...
Department has not established statutorily required fire safety inspection program, implemented recommendations to help Arizona communities with wildfire planning, or developed complaint-handling process, increasing the risk of fire-related deaths, injuries...
Department has established processes or taken steps to meet various statutory responsibilities to provide centralized support services for State government operations but has not implemented some prior audit recommendations intended...
MVD failed to timely inspect some contracted CDL providers and examiners and did not consistently take remedial action to address inspection violations, potentially jeopardizing the safety of drivers, pedestrians, and...
MVD failed to ensure authorized third-party companies consistently issued vehicle titles, driver licenses, and identification cards only to qualified and/or authorized individuals/entities, increasing public safety risks such as unsafe drivers...
ASET has provided insufficient oversight of IT projects, decreasing its ability to identify projects at risk of failing and hindering critical State agency functions, and did not always ensure that...
Department released 122 of 123 inmates we reviewed within earned release time frames but did not release some inmates 3 months early and did not comply with some reporting requirements...
Department did not provide some documents for local board case reviews because of AOC and Department issues, and some caseworkers did not attend case reviews, impacting boards’ ability to review...
The Arizona State Treasurer receives annual financial and compliance audits:
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Annual Financial Report includes our audit opinion on the reported financial information’s reliability.
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Report on Internal Control and on Compliance...
Annual financial and compliance reports: State and federal laws require the State of Arizona to receive annual financial and compliance audits, including audits of federal financial assistance programs, resulting in...
As part of their responsibility to prevent and detect fraud, Arizona Department of Education (Department) officials took appropriate action by reporting to us alleged financial misconduct by Tyler Grandil, the...
Review of Office’s use of anti-racketeering monies in fiscal years 2021 and 2022 did not identify improper use, but Office made error when processing procurement documents for 1 transaction and...
Since March 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and through September 2022, the federal government has allocated through various acts $77.8 billion to the State of Arizona and its local...
Department helps coordinate emergency management efforts throughout the State, but did not consistently develop and track corrective actions to address some emergency response deficiencies, impacting its ability to address these deficiencies...
Office provides economic, demographic, and tax research and analysis for the State but lacked documentation of benefits received for payments made to Commerce Authority, and Arizona Finance Authority, a related...