Government

In Nancy M. Modesitt’s recent research article “The Garcetti Virus,” she explains how a doctrine known as the job duties exclusion has come to erode protections once afforded to whistleblowers. She explains that this doctrine allows the discharge of an...

The OSC issued a memorandum today stating that electronic surveillance of an employee's contacts with an Inspector General and/or the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is illegal.

House and Senate leaders are in "conference" right now debating whether or not employees in the Public Health Service (PHS) will obtain whistleblower protections. At stake is whether or not thousands of PHS employees who work at the Department of...

In this week's Honesty Without Fear radio program, I interviewed Robert "Bob" Whitmore and his lawyer, Paula Dinerstein, about the landmark decision Whitmore won from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week. The Federal Circuit has...

The Alaska Dispatch published a story yesterday that reveals how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) condones misconduct and punishes those who speak out for the truth. The story by investigative reporters Amanda Coyne and Tony Hopfinger is called, "Why...

An assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University has launched a website to recruit participants for her study of government whistleblowers and reporters who use whistleblowers as sources. Dr. Cary A. Greenwood, APR, Fellow PRSA, is a former corporate and government public...

Last week, the National Whistleblowers Center filed a motion for preliminary injunction under the Freedom of Information Act in U.S. District Court in DC. The motion has been filed in order to get the FDA to release all documents pertaining...

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst took on the FBI because he knew that defendants had been wrongly convicted on the basis of seriously flawed testimony by the FBI crime lab. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the D.C. Superior Court overturned...

In two landmark decisions last week, the federal Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) held that it does have the authority to enforce the procedural protections for federal employees who suffer adverse employment actions as a result of issues with their...

The City of Chicago Ethics Task Force released a report today that recommends that the City strengthen protections for whistleblowers.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed the Task Force to improve the City's notorious record on ethics. Cindy Canary of the Illinois...