Office of Investigations and Compliance
The Office of Investigations and Compliance (OIC) protects and serves the public, employees, and offenders by gathering information, examining operations, enforcing departmental standards and laws through audits and investigations, and recommending solutions. Organized in 2005, by merging primarily already existing units under one office, it now has the ability to efficiently and effectively coordinate, collaborate, assimilate, and disseminate information, findings, and intelligence to the leadership and staff of the Department of Corrections, as well external local, state, and federal entities and agencies.
The Office of Investigations and Compliance falls under the Executive Division and consists of five units and a special coordinator: Internal Investigations Unit, Offender Affairs/Ombudsman Unit, Intelligence Unit, Compliance Unit, and the Apprehension Unit. Acting as the Commissioner's eyes and ears and the Department's Standard Bearer, OIC has gained National recognition as a premier investigative, intelligence, and audit body.
We accomplish this by recruiting the best, most qualified for the job, promoting quality education and training, optimizing information technology and integrating it into all of our systems and processes and applying state of the art equipment focused on comprehensive, multi-agency intra/inter network focused collaboration, communication, and cooperation. The results are unbiased and uncompromising and reflect the highest professional standard.
PREA Coordinator
The PREA Coordinator serves as the department's liaison regarding all PREA-related issues . Consultation and assistance is provided to managers, staff, and contractors to ensure compliance of the department's zero tolerance policy for sexual assault and sexual misconduct within any correctional institution governed by the Georgia Board of Corrections
Internal Investigations
The mission of the Internal Investigations Unit is to enforce departmental standards and laws. They accomplish that task by conducting timely and comprehensive criminal and administrative investigations, collaborating as necessary with appropriate law enforcement agencies, providing results to senior leadership, and when appropriate, sharing data and information with the Intelligence Unit for tracking trends and indicators within the facilities.
Intelligence Unit
The mission of the Intelligence Unit is to collect and analyze information and disseminate relevant intelligence directed and proactively reducing threats in our institutions. They accomplish that task by identifying individuals and group criminal and subversive activity by investigation and research, and quickly disseminate it to the appropriate action agents within the facilities and to senior leadership.
Compliance Unit
The mission of the Compliance Unit is to evaluate the operations of facilities and field offices utilizing departmental standards and ensuring safe, secure, and efficient operation. They accomplish that task by conducting annual comprehensive audits of all Category I facilities, security audits of all Category II and III facilities, and re-inspecting significant non-compliant functional areas within ninety days of initial inspection. In addition, examine community supervision standards in all forty-nine Judicial Circuits and re-examine significant non-compliant functional areas within ninety days of initial inspection. Finally, maintain and provide information and analysis of completed inspections intra-departmental and gather new data surrounding critical incidents as directed by Executive Operations Division.
Offender Affairs and Ombudsman Unit
The mission of the Offender Affairs and Ombudsman Unit is to promote fairness, accountability and integrity by investigating public and offender grievances, appeals, and inquiries regarding unfair practices and non-compliance of policy. They accomplish that task by investigating allegations of violations of GDC policies and procedures, monitoring problems in the correctional system in a fair and consistent manner and addressing offender and general public concerns in an unbiased, impartial, and courteous manner.
