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 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 (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 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...
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...
This special book talk event will be Tuesday, October 11th at 6:30 pm at Busboys & Poets (14th and V Streets, Washington, DC).
Privacy Act Protections for Whistleblowers At Risk On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, the National Whistleblower Center filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the plaintiff in a Privacy Act case, Federal Aviation...
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...
We are grateful to have the assistance of new interns for the Fall. Standing are Mark, Trevor, Daphney, Tim, Kim and Owen (our staffer for the National Whistleblowers Center). Seated are Rafaele, David, Fay and Yasin. Our intern program provides...
Join NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, MD on Wednesday, September 21st to celebrate International Peace Day and dedicate the new Howard Zinn Room. The room will be dedicated in honor of the late...
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