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Audit Criticizes Management of ODOC Financial Computer System
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2006, page 22
An Audit found that the main financial accounting system of the Oregon Department of Corrections(ODOC), was in a general state of disrepair and the...project to upgrade [the system] was in jeopardy of failure.
Additionally, approximately $177,000 in contract payments...were made contrary to state contracting rules.
In the early 1990s, the ...
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