A round up of whistleblower news. Whistleblower rewarded for exposing security flaws. From The New York Times The government said the video surveillance software it bought from Cisco was “of no value” because it did not “meet its primary purpose:...
Joe Davidson, who writes about the federal government for The Washington Post, points out that there are a lot of so-called appreciation days. There’s Houseplant Appreciation Day in January, Truck Driver Appreciation Week in September and National Nurses Week in May,...
National Whistleblower Day is over, but the tweets from NWC continue. https://twitter.com/StopFraud
This year’s National Whistleblower Day event will be Tuesday, July 30. It will be broadcast live from Capitol Hill via Facebook. If you are going to blow the whistle, do it right, says Stephen M. Kohn, chair of National Whistleblower...
From Transparency International: To celebrate World Whistleblowers Day — 23 June 2019 — we’ve created a set of GIFs and Stickers you can use on your favorite social media platforms. More here on how to use them. https://gph.is/g/Zkbnr2Y via GIPHY
Maya Efrati By Maya Efrati In a show of bicameral bipartisanship, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have introduced bills to declare July 30th, 2019 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. The Senate has passed similar resolutions each...
This past Tuesday, Aaron Westrick, a whistleblower of defective bullet-proof vests, was awarded a Frank Wills & Martha Mitchell Pillar Award at the Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human Rights. Pillar Awards are given by the Whistleblower Summit for Civil...
Yesterday, the country celebrated National Whistleblower Day. The day celebrates whistleblowers' contributions to democracy, and commemorates the Founding Fathers' unanimous passage of the first U.S. whistleblower law on July 30, 1778. The National Whistleblower Center hosted its annual National Whistleblower Day celebration...
Linda Tripp, a former U.S. civil servant who blew the whistle on a sitting President, will speak this year on July 30th at the National Whistleblower Day celebration on Capitol Hill. This is the first public address Tripp will be making...
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution declaring July 30, 2018 as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. National Whistleblower Appreciation Day commemorates the passage of America’s first whistleblower law and celebrates the contributions of whistleblowers to democracy. The resolution was...
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