Chris Bragg is reporting for the Times Union a report recently released by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has found the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities has made limited progress in complying with a 2007 law intended protect residents of group homes in New York. The follow-up report follows a 2019 audit from the office detailing the agency's problems with following the law. The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities, the state agency responsible for overseeing group homes for the disabled, has implemented one of three recommendations made by the auditors two years ago, while two others were not implemented. The 2019 audit found the agency had not enacted policies to ensure that families are ensured access to records reporting incidents of abuse or neglect. The 2007 law also requires centers to disclose those incidents to family members within 24 hours after they are reported. In 2019, Comptroller's Office auditors reviewed records for 295 incidents at six facilities overseen by OPWDD over a four-year period beginning in April 2015. They found that in 11 percent of cases, facilities could not provide evidence that they notified family members or guardians less than a day after an incident was reported. The law requires that facility directors release a report 10 days after an incident detailing what steps a center took to address the issue, but in 7 percent of incidents reviewed, that did not happen. And facilities did not provide incident reports to family members within 21 days of their request for documents, as required by law. According to the 2019 audit, 20 of 63 records requests evaluated were not distributed on time or at all. In its response, the agency said it implemented the changes identified in its original response to the Comptroller's audit, but "having disagreed" with part of Comptrollers recommendations, the agency instead implemented a new training and quality improvement program of its own. Read the full story in the Times Union.