MARION COUNTY – Marion County Public Schools recently earned a perfect audit and was rated fully compliant with processes dealing with criminal justice information about employees and vendors.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement conducted the audit, focusing primarily on information gathered and utilized for employee background screenings, vendor/contractor applications, teacher certifications, and more.
Compliance with this technical data ensures MCPS abides by established proper controls to safeguard the full lifecycle of criminal justice information.
MCPS was specifically spotlighted for its full compliance in the following technical areas: information exchange agreements, management control agreements, security addendum process with private contractors/vendors, agency personnel security and security awareness training, auditing and accountability, access control, identification and authentication, configuration management, media protection, physical protection, systems and communications protection and information integrity, mobile devices, and written agency security plan/policy/procedures.
The audit, which concluded in February 2023, takes place every three years and ensures compliance with FDLE and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy.