{"id":405241,"date":"2026-07-20T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:42:08","slug":"sandag-abandons-multi-year-effort-to-collect-23k-from-the-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405241\/","title":{"rendered":"SANDAG abandons multi-year effort to collect $23K from the Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending three-and-a-half years trying to collect nearly $23,000 from the federal government, the San Diego Association of Governments is giving up.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, SANDAG\u2019s Board of Directors voted unanimously to write off three uncollected invoices sent to the United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS.<\/p>\n<p>The unpaid invoices \u2014 which date back to 2016 and 2019 \u2014 are for NCIS\u2019s use of the ARJIS regional crime database. The system gives state and federal law enforcement agencies access to crime data collected by local police departments \u2014 a service for which the agencies have to pay.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear why NCIS had searched ARJIS. SANDAG staff discovered the unpaid bills in December of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Several factors torpedoed the regional planning agency\u2019s debt collection efforts, <a href=\"https:\/\/pub-sandag.escribemeetings.com\/FileStream.ashx?DocumentId=16273\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a June staff report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For starters, SANDAG did not require NCIS to sign a contract before it searched the ARJIS database. NCIS cited the lack of supporting documentation as one of the reasons it refused to pay when SANDAG asked to collect.<\/p>\n<p>Staff turnover at NCIS has also made it difficult for SANDAG track down the ARJIS arrears.<\/p>\n<p>Considering about a decade has passed since the first unpaid invoice, \u201crecovery of the balances due is no longer considered feasible or cost-effective,\u201d noted the staff report from the June 26 Board of Directors meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote, Del Mar Councilmember and SANDAG board member Terry Gaasterland asked staff whether there are now processes in place to prevent similar situations in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cARJIS and accounting have been working together to make sure this does not happen again,\u201d responded Kimberly Trammel, SANDAG\u2019s director of accounting and finance.<\/p>\n<p>The agency now requires ARJIS to enter into formal contracts before rendering services to law enforcement agencies, Trammel added.<\/p>\n<p>SANDAG and NCIS did not respond to questions for this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending three-and-a-half years trying to collect nearly $23,000 from the federal government, the San Diego Association of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-405241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}