A legislative audit of the Department of Juvenile Services found financial accounting and computer security problems and said the department lost more than $2 million in federal funds because judges didn?t use the right language in sending youth to detention.
Chief Legislative Auditor Bruce Myers said in his report to the Joint Audit Committee that his staff “noted numerous internal control and record keeping deficiencies with respect to cash receipts, account receivable, corporate purchasing cards, disbursement transactions, information systems security and control, payroll, and property.”
At least 11 of the 17 findings were in a 2003 audit, but some problems go back to 1989, Myers said. Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore said the department agreed with most of the findings and described some of the remedies for increasing documentation for financial transactions and payroll.
But DeVore said there were proper controls for the issuance of state credit cards for purchases and said the computer system was not as vulnerable as the auditors alleged.
