Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the Guam Office of the Attorney General, Tamuning, Guam

• NCJ Number: 309324
• Date Published: February 2024
• Length: 31 pages

Annotation

This report presents results of an audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the Guam Office of the Attorney General, Tamuning, Guam.

Abstract

This audit of three Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) victim assistance formula grants awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to the Guam OAG to evaluate how the Guam Office of the Attorney General (Guam OAG) (located in Tamuning, Guam) designed and implemented its crime victim assistance program concluded that the Guam OAG distributed its Crime Victim Fund (CVF) funding to organizations that provided direct services to victims in Guam. The audit identified several areas where the Guam OAG can improve its administration and oversight of its victim assistance program, including maintaining adequate documentation to support subaward priority funding allocations. Further, the Guam OAG should take steps to improve its subrecipient monitoring to include ensuring required monitoring reviews are conducted and that accurate programmatic data is being provided by subrecipients for submission to the OVC. The audit identified unapproved personnel costs charged to the VOCA grants. The audit assessed performance in the following areas of grant management: (1) grant program planning and execution, (2) program requirements and performance reporting, (3) grant financial management, and (4) monitoring of subrecipients. The report contains eight recommendations to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to assist the Guam OAG in improving its grant management and administration and to remedy questioned costs. The OVC awarded these formula grants to enhance crime victim services in Guam.