REPORT DIGEST

ILLINOIS CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION AUTHORITY

COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION

For the Two Years Ended: June 30, 2011

Release Date: March 6, 2012

Summary of Findings:

Total this audit: 1

Total last audit: 3

Repeated from last audit: 1

State of Illinois, Office of the Auditor General

WILLIAM G. HOLLAND, AUDITOR GENERAL

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SYNOPSIS

• The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority did not fully test its disaster contingency plan.

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

LACK OF DISASTER CONTINGENCY PLAN

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (Authority) did not fully test its disaster contingency plan.

The primary mission of the Authority is to "improve the administration of justice by enhancing the information tools available to State and local criminal justice agencies and administrators." To accomplish this, the Authority maintains several essential computer systems. This finding has been repeated since 1987.

The Authority moved the majority of its computer processing environment as well as its backup systems to an off-site facility. A recovery test of the Authority’s new computing environment had not been performed. The Authority has not been able to execute a full test due to lack of available funding to purchase additional workstations, servers, and data circuits.

Tests of disaster recovery plans (and the associated documentation of the test results) verify that the plans, procedures and resources provide the capability to recover essential systems within the required timeframe. (Finding 1, pages 9-10)

Authority officials accepted the finding. (For previous Authority response, see Digest Footnote #1)

AUDITORS’ OPINION

Auditors conducted a compliance examination of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority for the two years ended June 30, 2011 as required by the Illinois State Auditing Act. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority has no funds that require an audit leading to an opinion on financial statements.

WILLIAM G. HOLLAND

Auditor General

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AUDITORS ASSIGNED

Our special assistant auditors were Bronner Professional Services.

DIGEST FOOTNOTES

#1 – LACK OF DISASTER CONTINGENCY PLAN – Previous Response

2009: The Authority accepts this finding and is currently working on completing the Disaster Recovery Plan.