Date Issued
Report Type
Management Advisory
External Entity
National Park Service
Description
During our investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and hostile work environment in the River District of the Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA), we discovered that the National Park Service (NPS) had hired a former GRCA employee, who had left GRCA after being disciplined for repeated acts of sexual harassment and misconduct, to work at an NPS facility in New Mexico. In addition, the former employee was later permitted to return to GRCA and work as a volunteer.
To prevent similar situations in the future, we issued a management advisory in which we recommended that NPS—
- ensure that reference checks are conducted on former Government employees before they are rehired;
- increase management oversight over selecting former NPS employees as volunteers; and
- prohibit former employees who have been disciplined for misconduct from returning as volunteers to the same environment in which they had been disciplined.
Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
Yes
Oversight Report File