Summary

Audit Scope

The scope of this audit of the Office of the Public Defender, Twentieth Judicial Circuit, focused primarily on assets, liabilities, fund equities, expenditures and disbursements, budgetary controls, and management reporting. For each of these areas, our audit included examinations of various transactions (as well as events and conditions) during the period January 1, 1998, through December 31, 1998.

Summary of Report on Compliance and Internal Control

We found that the Office of the Public Defender had generally complied with the significant provisions of laws, administrative rules, and other guidelines governing those operating units, programs, activities, functions, and classes of transactions within the scope of audit. Also, while our consideration of internal control would not necessarily disclose all matters in the Office’s internal control that might be reportable conditions, we noted no material weaknesses in the design or operation of the internal control for those operations audited.