1ANNAPOLIS, MD – Maryland’s legislative auditor is warning lawmakers about a troubling rise in repeat compliance failures among state agencies, saying too many departments are failing to correct long-standing problems flagged in previous audits.

A report presented Wednesday to the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee showed that more than one-third of the findings from this year’s Office of Legislative Audits (OLA) reviews were repeats from prior reports.

About 10 percent of those had appeared in at least two earlier audits, according to Christine Timanus, the agency’s deputy auditor.

Timanus told lawmakers that OLA had not recorded repeat rates this high since before 2010.

The office audits most state agencies every three to four years, focusing primarily on fiscal compliance.

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