Auditor s office reveals obstacles faced by state employees, supervisors amid pandemic
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BATON ROUGE - Adapting to daily life during a pandemic has been challenging for individuals and communities the world over.
Louisiana s leaders, not immune from the hurdles associated with the health crisis, experienced difficulties in navigating certain state employees through the transition of in-person work to telework from home, according to a recent report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor s Office.
Auditors say executive branch agencies encountered a host of difficulties when they implemented telework as an alternative to carrying out duties in-person, after the governor’s March 2020 stay-at-home order.
Five years before five members of a Baton Rouge-area groundwater commission were charged with conflict-of-interest violations, an attorney for the commission warned of exactly the problem that led to the charges, commission records show.
In mid-2015, former Assistant Attorney General Megan K. Terrell, then the groundwater commission s legal advisor, concluded that state ethics law could bar commissioners from drawing a salary from the big groundwater users they were supposed to regulate, like Baton Rouge Water and ExxonMobil.
The 18-member Capital Area Ground Water Conservation Commission manages the Southern Hills aquifer, the drinking water source for nearly 600,000 people in the Baton Rouge area. The aquifer also supplies industries, farms, cattle ranches and others.
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State Auditor: Review of Office of Public Health s COVID data reporting procedures reveals several concerns
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Monday, December 21 2020
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BATON ROUGE - A recent audit of the Louisiana Department of Health Office of Public Health (OPH) revealed a lack of procedural efficiency that may impact its reporting of COVID data statistics.
According to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor s Office, auditors who examined the reliability of the data reported on the OPH’s COVID-19 Dashboard found that while the organization has processes in place to ensure data on the number of positive cases and deaths are not over-reported on the dashboard, it does not have a process to make sure the laboratories handling COVID-19 testing submit complete results or submit test results in a timely manner.
State Sen. Jay Luneau, D-Alexandria and center, questions the Louisiana State Police on problems with sex offender registry during a hearing by the Legislative Audit Advisory Council on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Chair Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Central, is left, and state Sen. Louie Bernard, R-Natchitoches, is on the right.
Staff photo by Mark Ballard