Adult Parole Board reports 18 of 26 audit recommendations resolved; eight remain

Roger Phillips, chair of the Adult Parole Board, told the Legislative Performance Audit Oversight Committee that his board has completed 18 of 26 recommendations from an earlier performance audit and is working on the remaining eight.

"I think the 18 that have been accomplished, I think that's fair to say those programs have been successfully completed," Phillips said, describing progress since he joined the board in 2019. He told the committee some outstanding items are tied to planned structured decision-making training and information-technology changes at other agencies.

The audit, which the board says predates some of its members, included recommendations on decision-making criteria, tracking mechanisms, a records-retention policy, and guaranteed access to inmate mental-health and substance-abuse information used for…