Grand jury calls for internal control assessments. Evaluations of financial reporting, operations to curb fraud, waste
Following recent news exemplifying a lack of or failed internal controls within agencies throughout the county, a civil grand jury report recommends government entities to establish routine evaluations of its financing and operations.
Assessments should be documented and reported to an entity’s governing board to minimize fraud and waste, which the grand jury states is a risk San Mateo County currently faces.
The report references recent news reports as motivation for such investigation, including a former Caltrain manager using taxpayer money to build secret apartments inside two vacant stations, “pay-to-play” schemes involving the community college district, and Broadmoor police officials defrauding the pension system.