Whistleblowers.(U.S. CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION)(Brief Article)

Security Management, August, 2005 by Anderson, Teresa

Whistleblowers. A bill (S. 494) that would protect federal employees who disclose information about government wrongdoing has been approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. To proceed, the bill must now be taken up by the full Senate.

The bill would prevent reprisal against government workers who publicly release information regarding waste, abuse, or gross mismanagement in the federal government. Such abuses in relation to secret national defense information can be disclosed to a member of Congress rather than being publicly released, the bill states.