State Agencies
The Legislature should consider transferring the firearms background clearance function from DPS to the FBI. However, if DPS retains the function, it needs to improve its processes to ensure that...
Although the Department generally calculates inmates’ sentences correctly, it continues to make a small number of errors each year. As a result, a few inmates are released earlier or later...
The Board needs to make several improvements to its complaint investigation and adjudication processes as well as its complaint recordkeeping. First, the Board needs to take disciplinary action when physicians...
This report addresses the need for DPS to upgrade its existing analog microwave communications system to digital technology. Manufacturers no longer make analog microwave radios and no longer guarantee that...
The Department’s high correctional officer vacancy and turnover rate is preventing it from fully opening its newest prison and costs the State millions in overtime expenses. Despite aggressive recruitment measures...