Federal officials lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year after a government agency placed the minors in the homes of adult sponsors in communities across the country, according to...
Future public inquiries such as the recent Alex Salmond affair at Holyrood could be jeopardised by poor information management practices, a government internal review has found. The way that the...
(CN) — California’s foray into mass vaccination against Covid-19 has been marred by poor data management that has given an inaccurate snapshot on how many people have received their inoculation...
An examination of a selection of complaints received by the Ombudsman’s office, as well as those filed directly with Tusla, has highlighted “serious failings” in how the agency carries out its role....
It’s often seen as one of governments’ thankless achievements, despite helping build civilisations. Records management, the tool helping drive so many services for the community, has taken...
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has lost 12 years of gas-line repair records for part of the Bay Area — the largest such gap to emerge since the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion was blamed on...
After a nine-month probe, the VA's Office of Inspector General made 35 recommendations to address shoddy record-keeping, bungled claims, inadequate security, and poor working conditions at the...
Scientists say the closure of some of the world's finest fishery, ocean and environmental libraries by the Harper government has been so chaotic that irreplaceable collections of intellectual...
Atlanta’s auditor released a damning investigation of the Department of Watershed Management on Tuesday, reporting that security problems are so bad that it’s impossible to know how much equipment...
Shoddy record-keeping and weak management inside the Boston Redevelopment Authority have cost Boston’s powerful development agency millions of dollars in unpaid fees and lease payments, an outside...
AN investigation into a live-firing drill that sparked one of the biggest-ever bushfires in NSW has uncovered a litany of shocking Defence Force failures, including poor record keeping of anti-tank...
Mary Flaherty was only two years old when she was taken for tuberculosis treatment in a southern sanitarium. Tuberculosis treatment wasn’t available in the Arctic, so she and thousands of others...
The Directorate of Public service management (DPSM) has long been besieged by reports and complaints of maladministration and general malpractice in the running of the civil service. Recent Public...
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust has been fined £200,000 for the 'avoidable' death of a 66-year-old diabetic who was not given insulin due to poor record-keeping. ... She was assessed on...
Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s faulty pipeline records, which the utility promised to fix after the deadly San Bruno disaster more than three years ago, are being blamed in a natural-gas explosion...
Much of the Social Security Administration’s information on who’s dead and who isn’t is “inaccurate, incomplete or untimely” and could “lead to improper payments,” according to a government audit....
Federal information systems are rife with dysfunction, costing taxpayers billions. [Commentary] Dysfunctional information systems are endemic in the federal government. Officials' incessant talk...
SAN CARLOS -- In a strongly worded rebuke of PG&E and its senior management, a top official with the state Public Utilities Commission on Monday recommended that the utility be fined more than...
Regulator’s report exposes data gaps in millions of pension scheme records - the watchdog should not be afraid to bare its teeth If the success of pensions depends on robust administration then the...
The British engine maker denies claims by two former employees that it concealed records of defects in a "secret set of books". Two former Rolls-Royce employees have alleged the engine maker "cut...
The top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs are demanding more information from defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about lost Army field records from the wars in...
Alleged missing or disorganized records at the Athens County Engineer's Office have led to a sheriff's investigation into possible destruction of records and questions about how much the department...
Could careless record keeping cost Missouri taxpayers millions of dollars? It's a possibility as the feds try to recoup millions in questionable welfare payouts. Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich...
Recordkeeping practices at Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) remain in the spotlight at the ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into the release of sensitive documents from the Fitzgerald...
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia-based tour operator involved in a fatal bus crash in Oregon failed to monitor how long its drivers were at the wheel and kept poor records on the maintenance of its...
A coroner has called for "root and branch" gun licensing reform after ruling three women shot in a house in County Durham were unlawfully killed... In his inquest judgement, (The coroner Andrew...
WASHINGTON — The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have wasted about $1 billion in a failed effort to streamline medical record-keeping, the chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs...
Inadequate records of civil service pension payments are "unacceptable", the government has said after a spending watchdog raised concerns. The National Audit Office qualified the accounts of the...
FORMER Victoria Police chief Simon Overland is at the centre of an extraordinary failure by the force to act on crucial information about the murder in custody of gangland boss Carl Williams....
LAWYERS are using a landmark police courier system to argue for evidence to be thrown out of criminal trials.... Lawyers are arguing that lax record keeping from the time DNA samples leave police...
KwaZulu-Natal - Hundreds of guns from police station exhibit rooms across KwaZulu-Natal are missing or unaccounted for because of poor record keeping, an audit has found. The preliminary findings of...
The Pentagon has pumped billions of dollars into programs to counter the dangers of improvised explosive devices over the last decade but still lacks a way to track whether its initiatives are...
KITCHENER — The federal government is talking about law and order, but it needs to get its own house in order, says a Kitchener judge upset at the huge backlog in the RCMP’s criminal records...
The testimony of Paul Duller and Alison North wrt to the San Bruno Gas disaster is now available on the California Public Utilities Commission website. Read the full report. Records Management...
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. faces the start on Monday of another state probe into its record-keeping, one which could be far more serious as regulators examine whether the utility’s...
Poor recordkeeping keeps California schools from getting all of the funding that they have coming, a failing that especially hurts English learners, according to research from the University of...
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. agreed Thursday to pay an unusual gas-safety-related fine of $3 million for what state regulators called "willful non-compliance" with orders to provide key documents...
Barclays had no idea how big Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's futures-and-options trading business was when it considered taking over the defunct bank's derivatives trades at exchanges in 2008, a...
In June 2002 an American court found the accounting firm Arthur Andersen guilty on charges of unlawfully destroying documents relating to the firm’s...
In a Special Report to Parliament April 2002 the NSW Ombudsman reported evidence of poor record keeping practices. The report states that the current recordkeeping practices of DoCS mean that...
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