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News Wrap: Reports identify errors in Safe Streets payment process

One Safe Streets worker checks in with local kids and hands out winter hats during a block party.
Emily Hofstaedter/ WYPR news.
One Safe Streets worker checks in with local kids and hands out winter hats during a block party.

On the Midday Newswrap, WYPR's Emily Hofstaedter discusses her recent reporting on the first audit of Baltimore’s Safe Streets program. The first biennial audit for MONSE, which oversees Safe Streets, found the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement had weak processes to prevent duplicate payments and overpayments to contractors.

Ultimately, the audit found no evidence of fraud but warned that MONSE was making itself susceptible to fraud if it did not heed recommendations from the Department of Audits.

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