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Jamaican Senate debating whistleblower law
The Jamaican Senate is scheduled to debate a comprehensive whistleblower bill this Friday. Justice Minister Senator Dorothy Lightbourne released the proposed text of the Protected Disclosure Act (Whistle-blower Law) 2010, according to Jamaica Observer. The bill fulfills a 2007 election...
The Role of Federal Employee Whistleblowers in Protecting Public Heath and Safety
Federal agencies can readily implement policy requiring their engineers to be PE's (with appropriate grandfathering). Federal PE's who risk their careers to do their duty to protect others need and deserve viable whistleblower protection and the current system to protect...
Ellsberg ciriticizes Obama for prosecution of whistleblowers
Speigel Online is today releasing an interview with Daniel Ellsberg in which Ellsberg criticizes the Obama administration for increasing the use of criminal prosecutions against whistleblowers. Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to reveal how numerous previous administrations had resorted to...
Senator Grassley Backs UBS Whistleblower, Swiss Parliament Rejects DOJ UBS Deal
In the past 24 hours there have been significant developments in the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld. Three years ago, the former UBS banker provided the U.S. government with detailed information on how to identify the names of 19,000...
US government arrests another whistleblower
The U.S. government has arrested another whistleblower. Wired.com reports that the government is holding Specialist Bradley Manning in detention in Kuwait pending charges that he supplied a classified video to WikiLeaks.org. I reported here in April that this video depicts...
ALI proposes a duty of loyalty threatening to whistleblowers
The American Law Institute (ALI) is a private organization of establishment lawyers and law professors that seeks to influence the law by publishing “restatements” of the law. In its noblest work, it seeks to make the law of the 50...
NWC Summer Interns for 2010
The warmer summer days here in Georgetown bring us a new class of interns. I am pleased to share this photo of our 2010 NWC Summer Interns: Pictured here are (top row): Will, Harsh, Arthur, Josh and Nate; (middle)...
Sixth Circuit stays Goerge Fort’s reinstatement, without considering the public interest
Last week, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals stayed George Fort's preliminary order of reinstatement. Tennessee Commerce Corp. fired Fort last year after he sent a letter to the company's audit committee about failures in the bank's internal controls....
Hospital workers strike Temple University and defeat “gag” rule
Nurses and other professional and technical employees of Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia won a month-long strike in which management tried to impose a "gag" rule to prohibit them from speaking publicly about how staff shortages affect patient care. Marty...
Ghana groups use whistleblower rights booklet to fight corruption
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition and the British High Commission in Accra (the British Embassy) have published A User's Guide to the Whistleblower as part of their efforts to eradicate corruption. The 34-page booklet is inspired by a call of Ghana's...
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