A review determined that GSA has taken appropriate corrective actions to address the recommendations and that no further action is necessary. Image: Vasin Lee/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe IG’s office at the GSA has said the agency is following an action plan in response to an earlier report on security cameras, video recording systems and alarm systems at buildings under GSA control.
The 2022 report said that “security is hampered by” issues covering several pages of findings, all of which were redacted, and a conclusion that “taken together, the examples above that the security camera and alarm systems at GSA owned buildings” followed by more redactions. The IG further pointed to previous reports regarding security monitoring and said that “although many of these security deficiencies are long-standing, little action is being taken to address them.”
That report recommended that the GSA conduct a nationwide assessment of security cameras and alarm systems under its control, develop a plan to repair or replace them as necessary, and better define responsibility for doing so on an ongoing basis.
Says the follow-up, “Our implementation review determined that GSA has taken appropriate corrective actions to address the recommendations. We determined that no further action is necessary.”
That office has issued a series of reports in recent years raising concerns about security protections in and around federal facilities. The most recent tallied some 11,100 crimes over the last four years and noted that in that time, building security committees accepted only about 900 of some 3,000 recommendations from the Federal Protective Service.
The GAO and the IG offices of agencies including the USPS, IRS and VA also have issued reports in that time pointing out lacking or inoperable security cameras at facilities, and a recently offered House bill (HR-6935) would require the USPS to expand the use of security cameras at its facilities.
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