ALBANY – State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office has conducted audits on the Goshen Central School District and Greenburgh Eleven Union Free School district and Tuesday released the findings.

In the Goshen audit, the office looked at controls over selected operations.

Auditors found district officials did not establish adequate controls over performance of criminal background checks. Consequently, background checks were not performed for 20 of the 23 independent contractors auditors tested, who had direct contact with students. The independent contractors provided services such as nursing, physical therapy, special education, occupational therapy and psychiatry.

District officials also did not establish adequate controls over purchasing and information technology, the audit said.

In a separate audit of the Greenburgh district, the comptroller looked at internal controls over information technology.

 Auditors found the board and district officials did not adopt a security plan, disaster recovery plan or ensure that unauthorized software was not installed on district computers.  Also, there were no policies, procedures or oversight mechanisms for the use of mobile storage devices.