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OrganFraud Policy Quick wangle menuMain content - accesskey 1Main menu - accesskey 2FooterLocation path You are here:   HomeOrganFraud Policy TopToolboxMobile. Switch to mobile site.Accessibility panelTopAccessibility optionsLayout:Default layout. This is the default version.High contrast. This layout is suitable for people with low vision.Font size:bigger. Increase font size.reset. Reset font size to default.smaller. Decrease font size.bigger. Increase font sizereset. Reset font size to defaultsmaller. Decrease font sizeLegibility:ResetLow brightnessBest legibilitySans serif Serif Bold Layout width:LiquidFullLiquidFullTopFollow usTexas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired - FacebookTexas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired - TwitterTexas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired - YouTubeTexas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired - PinterestTopSearch TopTexas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired1100 West 45th St., Austin, TX 78756 - (512) 454-8631Main menu HomeAbout TSBVISchool Year ProgramShort-Term ProgramsOutreach / Technical AssistanceOnline LearningPublicationsResourcesContact Us TopMain content Alert messageHide this messageOK DHF (TSBVI) - EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS OF CONDUCT: FRAUDULENT ACTION AGAINST TSBVI PROHIBITION AGAINST ILLEGAL AND FRAUDULENT ACTS AGAINST TSBVI School officers and employees are strictly prohibited under the law and under this policy from engaging in any illegal, improper, or dishonest, acts and/or practices that may involve the School. Officers and employees who engage in such acts are subject to firsthand termination of employment. PURSUING LEGAL REMEDIES The School shall pursue misogynist legal remedies versus persons or entities, including School officers and employees who engage in fraudulent acts versus the School.  Remedies include, but are not limited to, terminating employment, requiring restitution, and forwarding of information regarding suspected fraud to the towardly authorities for criminal prosecution. SCOPE OF PROHIBITED ACTS Within this policy, illegal, improper and/or quack acts and/or practices include, but are not limited to: Theft. Fraud. Embezzlement. Bribery, rebate, and "kick-back." Misappropriation, misapplication, destruction, removal, or shading of property. Conflicts of interest. ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY Administrators of all School departments shall be responsible for identifying potential areas of risk within their respective departments in which fraudulent activities might occur and for implementing reasonable measures to prevent such fraudulent activities. DUTY TO REPORT FRAUD A state organ appropriated funds by the Texas Legislature, shall use appropriated funds to squire with the detection and reporting of fraud involving state funds by waste and vituperate involving state resources directly to the State Auditor's Office.  This shall include, at a minimum, the State Auditor's Office fraud hotline information and a link to the State Auditor's Office website for fraud reporting.  (Current General Appropriations Act, Article IX, Sec. 7.09)  See link and hotline below. Any officer or employee who has reason to suspect that any person, including a school officer or employee, is engaging in any type of fraudulent worriedness versus the School including theft, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, rebate, kick-back, misappropriation, misapplication, destruction, and removal or shading of School property or mismatch of interest (see Policy DHD), shall report the suspected fraudulent worriedness to the Superintendent in person, by phone, in writing, or by email.  The individual reporting should state the individual(s), School department(s) or other entities involved; describe the fraud, waste, or vituperate that is stuff reported, and any other detail that might squire the Superintendent or the State Auditor.  As much detail as possible should be provided so that towardly whoopee can be taken.  The individual reporting may segregate to report anonymously, or provide a phone number or email write at which the reporter can be contacted for increasingly information.  In no event shall any TSBVI officer, or employee, take any retaliatory whoopee versus the person making the report. The School officer or employee moreover has the option to report suspected waste, fraud, or vituperate of state resources directly to the Texas State Auditor’s Office by: accessing the link found under “Report Fraud” (on the home page of TSBVI’s website or on the School’s Intranet page, calling 1-800-TX-AUDIT, by emailing , linking to https://sao.fraud.texas.gov/reportfraud, faxing to 512/936-9812 or writing: State Auditor's Office ATTN:  Investigations and Audit Support  P.O. Box 12067  Austin, TX 78711.  The officer or employee reporting any type of fraudulent worriedness versus the School to the State Auditor may make the report anonymously. INVESTIGATION OF REPORTS Reports of fraudulent activities shall be investigated in vibrations with procedures ripened and implemented by the Superintendent.  To the extent possible, the Superintendent shall investigate unrecognized reports in the same manner as reports from a named person. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT TO STATE AUDITOR AND TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGARDING SUSPECTED FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES If the Superintendent has reasonable rationalization to believe, which is increasingly than mere suspicion and based on particular facts which support the belief, that money received from the State by TSBVI or a TSBVI contract may have been lost, misappropriated, or misused, or that other fraudulent or unlawful self-mastery has occurred in relation to the operation of TSBVI, the Superintendent shall report the reason and understructure for the weighing to the state auditor and to the TSBVI Board of Trustees.  The state auditor may investigate the report or may monitor any investigation conducted by TSBVI.  Gov't. Code §321.022, 811.101-.102 The report to the state auditor should include a unravelment of the incident, the unscientific value of the loss, the identity of all persons who may have involvement or knowledge relating to the loss, and a unravelment of such involvement or knowledge, a unravelment of the evidence, and the name and telephone number of the organ employee responsible for resolving the incident. Adopted:         1/24/97 Amended:       1/23/98, 1/26/99, 9/25/15, 6/1/18 Reviewed: policies TopTop. Jump to top of the page.Footer These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. DISCLAIMER: TSBVI provides external links solely for our users' information and convenience. When users select a link to an outside website, they are leaving the TSBVI site and are subject to the privacy limitations and policies of the owners/sponsors of that website. 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