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GAO Report: Additional Actions Are Needed to Strengthen DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs (February 3, 2010)
Category: Sexual Harassment/Assault/Trauma
The GAO-10-215 report noted that DOD addressed four (4) of GAO's nine (9) recommendations from 2008 regarding the oversight and implementation of its sexual assault prevention and response programs. DOD acknowledges that more work remains in order to fully develop its oversight framework. DOD has taken steps to begin acquiring a centralized sexual assault database. However, it did not meet a legislative requirement to establish the database by January 2010, and it is unclear when the database will be established because DOD does not yet have a reliable schedule to guide its efforts. The Coast Guard has partially implemented one (1) of GAO's two (2) recommendations for further developing its sexual assault prevention and response program, it has not implemented the other. The Coast Guard lacks a systematic process for assembling, documenting, and maintaining sexual assault incident data, and lacks quality control procedures to ensure that the program data being collected are reliable.
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