Employee Security

GSA Has No Criteria for Assessing Adequacy Gao ID: GGD-87-89 June 15, 1987

In response to a congressional request, GAO examined security arrangements at 20 government-owned and leased facilities under General Services Administration (GSA) control.

GAO found that: (1) GSA has not established minimum security standards for its buildings or for governmentwide use, as required by federal regulations; (2) GSA has neither made physical security surveys of all properties under its control nor established criteria for assessing their vulnerability; (3) since GSA does not normally provide fixed-post security for access control to buildings, individual tenant agencies determine and fund the access control and level of security they provide their employees; (4) use of contract guard services for building access control and employee security was the primary agency option; (5) varying levels of security existed at the 20 buildings surveyed, with some buildings having no access control at all; and (6) GSA is considering corrective action to resolve these issues.



The Justia Government Accountability Office site republishes public reports retrieved from the U.S. GAO These reports should not be considered official, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Justia.