- A. The audit team leader shall review and discuss the audit results with the Executive Director before formalization of the findings.
- B. The audit team leader shall issue a report to the managing official for review and comment within 30 days of completion of the audit.
- C. The Executive Director shall submit the final report and compliance plan to the Commission for consideration and approval within 60 days of completion of the audit.
- D. The Executive Director shall disseminate the final report and compliance plan to the specified distribution within 15 days of the Commission's approval.
- E. The Commission staff shall routinely monitor the approved compliance plan.
- F. The managing official shall submit a written request to the Commission for modification of the compliance deadlines, when initial plans for corrective action cannot be met, for formal consideration at the next regularly scheduled Commission meeting.
- G. If approved, the Commission shall issue a revised plan for corrective action.
- H. If disapproved, the Commission may conduct a hearing according to established procedures to determine whether certain facility functions, operations, or practices should be limited or discontinued, the facility closed, or other appropriate actions taken.
- I. The Executive Director shall recommend to the Commission, at a regularly scheduled meeting, the presentation of the recognition of achievement award to a facility which has attained total compliance within 1 year of the approval of the compliance plan.
- J. For a facility which does not achieve 100 percent compliance within 1 year, Commission staff shall continue to monitor the correction of noted deficiencies until the next scheduled audit.
Authority: Correctional Services Article, §§4-214 and 9-616 and Title 8, Subtitle 1, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: April 26, 1982 (9:8 Md. R. 823)
Regulations .06—.08 adopted effective January 2, 1983 (9:26 Md. R. 2573)
Regulations .01—.08 repealed and new Regulations .01—.10 adopted effective November 25, 1991 (18:23 Md. R. 2488)
Regulation .01 repealed and new Regulation .01 adopted effective December 4, 1995 (22:24 Md. R. 1900)
Regulation .01B amended effective November 18, 2019 (46:23 Md. R. 1066)
Regulation .02C amended effective October 4, 2010 (37:20 Md. R. 1394)