{"id":16126,"date":"2020-09-16T14:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2020-09-21T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T22:01:01","slug":"open-records-request-dept-of-audits-and-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/open-records-request-dept-of-audits-and-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Open records request &#8211; Dept of Audits and Accounts *UPDATED with response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"attachment_16133\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/header_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/header_01.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/header_01-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Dept of Audits and Accounts<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">Ms. Schwinne,<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">As discussed on the phone today, please send me copies of any\/all reports or memorandums the Dept. of Audits and Accounts created and or sent to the Dept. of Community Affairs or any other agency or official related to or listing agencies that did not file an annual compliance report with Audits and Accounts or that were\/are not in compliance with requirements under OCGA 36-60-6 and OCGA 5-36-4.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">Please use the time frame 2012 to and including 2019.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">Thanks for your help. I will be in touch soon.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">D.A. King<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">Marietta<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>*Updated with response, 18 Sept 2020:<\/p>\n<p>Good Morning Mr. King,<\/p>\n<p>On September 16, 2020, you filed an open records request for reports or memorandums created by the Department of Audits and Accounts which listed agencies that did not file an annual compliance report or that were\/are not in compliance with requirements under OCGA 36-60-6 and OCGA 50-36-4.<\/p>\n<p>When we were speaking on the phone about this, I referenced a report we issue to the Department of Community Affairs.\u00a0 However, we only issue reports\/memorandums specific to the reporting requirements relating to OCGA \u00a713-10-91 and OCGA \u00a736-80-23 (d).\u00a0\u00a0 We are not required to notify DCA or any other agency of governments who did not comply with the reporting requirements applicable to OCGA \u00a736-60-6.<\/p>\n<p>I did run reports for the years 2013 \u2013 2019 of all local governments that had not complied with one or more of the reporting requirements, and have attached the files.\u00a0 There is a file for cities and consolidated governments and a separate file for counties.\u00a0 We did all of this work manually prior to 2013 and do not have any electronic reporting for it.\u00a0 Additionally, that is beyond our retention period.\u00a0 So, we would not have the records.<\/p>\n<p>You will receive subsequent emails that will include the reports we have sent to DCA and to other agencies regarding nonresponding governments.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Carol Schwinne<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>NON RESPONDING REPORTS BELOW.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2013-2019_NonresponseCities.pdf\">View &#8211; Nonresponse Report &#8211; Cities &amp; Consolidated Governments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2014_NonresponseCounties.pdf\">View &#8211; Nonresponse Report &#8211; Counties<\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Schwinne, As discussed on the phone today, please send me copies of any\/all reports or memorandums the Dept. of Audits and Accounts created and or sent to the Dept. of Community Affairs or any other agency or official related to or listing agencies that did not file an annual compliance report with Audits and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16126"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16126\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}