Louisiana Voice

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1. on June 14, 2015 at 10:38 am | Reply jwpatrick1

   Absolutely true. The original State Sex Offender was maintained by State Police in the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information. Shortly after becoming the Director I found out the original contract negotiated by my predecessor required us to fax notifications to local Sheriffs whenever an offender was registered through the state. Digging deeper I found that while we always faxed them out, if the receiving machine was down/ busy/ out of paper, the system wouldn’t retry or even notify us that it had not gone through. So we didn’t know they didn’t get the information, and they didn’t know there was any information to get. I was appalled and contacted the vendor and they indicated the contract required the ability to fax…. and it did fax but it didn’t specify any of that other “stuff”. That would be a cost add-on. I saw this time after time. Low bidder would get the contract but to actually do the work, it would cost more. No one ever penalized them or forced them to honor the original terms. The result isn’t just lost money, but in many cases there is a loss of services that directly impacts citizens’ welfare and safety.

   
   
2. on June 14, 2015 at 3:54 pm | Reply fairness2014

   Oh..you contributed to the Governor’s re-election campaign? I think we can get you more money.

   
   
3. on June 15, 2015 at 9:37 am | Reply Stephen Winham

   Unfortunately, the Dilbert cartoon OVERstates the amount of scrutiny given these contracts by the DOA. And, who knows how much they get at the agency and department level?

   We need ask ourselves (and I often have) is, “Is it unreasonable to expect the people running the state to have at least as much sense as Scott Adams?”.