Follow-Up Audit of Sarasota County Area Transit (SCAT) Liberty Pass Program, December 2017

The Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness provided data indicating that 5,022 Liberty Passes were distributed to individuals for the period of October 1, 2015 through June 8, 2016. Data from the SCAT database indicated that 8,787 Liberty Passes were distributed by SCAT Administration and the DTTS for the same time period. Internal Audit evaluated the data, observing that there appears to have been 56 instances where an individual obtained a Liberty Pass from a third party agency and from SCAT Administration or the DTTS for the same month. Additionally, the data indicates that there appears to have been duplicate Liberty Passes sold within SCAT Administration and the DTTS 80 times and within third party agencies 148 times. Original Recommendations, Report dated September 2016: To ensure compliance with the intent of the Liberty Pass program, SCAT should develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent and/or detect duplicate Liberty Pass distributions. Management Action Plan: Effective October 1, 2017 external agencies no longer sell Liberty Passes. HHS and SCAT are selling the Liberty Pass using the eligibility database, which was implemented August 2, 2017. 8 | F o l l o w - u p o f S C A T L i b e r t y P a s s P r o g r a m D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 7