I am a:

DOJ-certified PREA auditor conducting an auditAgency or facility representative seeking to initiate an audit in the Online Audit System

This form collects basic information about scheduled audits, including the expected dates for the onsite portion of the audit, the location of the audit, and the facility and/or agency to be audited. All auditors must complete and submit the Audit Initiation Form for each audit they conduct as lead auditor.

Please note: Questions that show a red asterisk (*) are required; you will not be allowed to submit the form if any required question is not answered.

Completing the Audit Initiation Form does not grant you access to the OAS. If you would like to receive access to the OAS, please be sure to add yourself as either a PREA Coordinator or Compliance Manager.

Your contact information

First name

Last name

Email address

Telephone number

Job title

Audit information

What type of audit do you want to initiate?

Facility - Standard PREA audit of individual facilitiesAgency - Audit of certain standards

The Agency Audit reduces the burden on agencies that operate multiple facilities by allowing key centralized staff to be interviewed once each year rather than for each facility audit, providing a centralized repository for agency-level documentation that can be shared across all facilities, and removes from the facility audits a small subset of standards and provisions that impose a burden solely on the confinement agency. The results of an Agency Audit are valid only for the year following the completion of the agency level audit; any facility audits initiated during that year will benefit from the agency-level findings. Note: Agency Audits may not be available for private operators. Learn more about agency audits.

Facility information

Audited facility name

Audited facility type

Audited facility street address

Audited facility city

Audited facility state

Audited facility ZIP code

Audited facility phone

What is the audited facility's rated capacity?

What is the average daily population in this facility?

What is the audited facility's population within 5 days of initiation?

Facility type

Agency audits are facility-type specific. If your agency runs more than one type of facility (e.g. prisons and juvenile facilities), you will be required to have a separate Agency Audit conducted for each facility type that it runs and will need to complete a separate form for each type.

Audited facility type

Agency information

If your facility self-operates, then use your facility information in the agency information fields below.

Name of the agency

The agency is the owner/operator of the audited facility

Parent agency jurisdiction type

If "other", describe

Street address

City

State

ZIP code

Phone

Onsite audit dates

Scheduled start date of onsite audit

Scheduled end date of onsite audit

Months ahead

You have selected dates that are more than 6 months in advance of the onsite portion of the audit. Your initiation will be recorded but, please be aware, we will not begin the supervisor verification process for this audit nor create the audit in the Online Audit System (OAS) until 6 months before onsite.

Auditor information

Lead auditor

View list of all auditors. Please select an auditor with active certification. If you do not know who will conduct the audit, leave this field blank. If you know your auditor's name, you may begin typing it in the box below and options will appear

Auditor

Email address

Telephone number

Authorized agency or facility representatives

Please note: The same person cannot be listed as the PREA Coordinator and the PREA Compliance Manager as these are two distinct roles.

Supervisors will not receive access to the OAS unless a supervisor is one of the defined user access categories (e.g., the PREA Coordinator is the PREA Compliance Manager’s direct supervisor).

PREA coordinator

Primary PREA coordinator

First name

Last name

Email address

Telephone number

Supervisor information for primary PREA coordinator

First name

Last name

Email address

Telephone number

Job title

Do you have any secondary PREA coordinators that will need access to the OAS?

Secondary PREA coordinator

First name

Last name

Email

Telephone number

Supervisor first name

Supervisor last name

Supervisor email

Telephone number

Do you have a PREA Compliance Manager that you would like to have access to this audit in the OAS?

PREA compliance manager

Primary PREA compliance manager

First name

Last name

Email address

Telephone number

Supervisor information for primary PREA compliance manager

First name

Last name

Email Address

Telephone number

Job title

Do you have any additional PREA compliance managers that will need access to the audit in the OAS?

Additional PREA compliance manager

First name

Last name

Email

Telephone number

Supervisor first name

Supervisor last name

Supervisor email

Telephone number

Once you submit this form, a PREA online system administrator will send the supervisor confirmation form to the supervisor(s) indicated above to complete this process.

Your auditor ID number

Please enter your unique auditor ID number then press Submit

After pressing submit you will be directed to the Audit Initiation Form and your auditor detail information will pre-populate; please ensure your auditor ID number is correct.