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Julia Davis blasts House version of WPEA
TAKE ACTION! Julia Davis, the Homeland Security writer for the Los Angeles Examiner, released an article yesterday calling for action today to "protect whistleblowers, so that they may continue protecting our nation." The article is called, "The House cooks up...
Prison Employees To Rally Against Retaliation
Employees of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will rally today to speak out against retaliation for filing discrimination complaints. In July, the American Federation of Government (AFGE) Employees Council of Prison Locals called on Attorney General Eric Holder and...
MSPB Approves Stay for FDA Whistleblower
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) recently allowed a stay in the termination of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whistleblower, Paul T. Hardy. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) requested the stay on his behalf due to reasonable belief...
Senate Committee marks up and approves a weak WPEA
This morning, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) marked up and approved S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). The WPEA has been pending for years. Its expressed purpose is to strengthen protections for whistleblowers. As...
Oranges and Sunshine, a different kind of whistleblower story
Oranges and Sunshine is a new feature film scheduled for limited release this Friday, October 21, 2011. It is based on the book Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys (portrayed by Emily Watson), a social worker in Nottingham, England. Earlier in...
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo celebrates her NO FEAR book
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo (pictured with Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy) celebrated the release of her new book at Busboys and Poets last night. Her book is called, NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA. The event began...
Special Counsel moves to protect two whistleblowers
Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner (pictured) announced today that she filed requests yesterday on behalf of two federal whistleblowers to protect them from adverse personnel actions. She filed the requests with the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) in support of Paul...
FBI training scandals raises concern for whistleblowers
By Guest Blogger: Jane Turner Member of NWC's Board of Directors and Director of NWC's FBI Oversight Program Recently, an article appeared in Wired magazine reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was teaching that being a devout Muslim is...
Connecticut limits investigations and expands a time limit
By guest blogger Alexandra Rosenblatt. If you are a whistleblower in the State of Connecticut, you may be one of the approximately two hundred individuals who have been waiting for months and months to have your claims reviewed or investigated...
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo speaks in NO FEAR
No Fear: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA is a new book by environmental whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo (pictured, with EPA whistleblowers David Lewis and Bill Sanjour). In 1996, Dr. Coleman-Adebayo was a senior policy analyst for...
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