WASHINGTON – Amid National Sunshine Week, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is spotlighting federal whistleblower disclosure policies and demanding agencies take action to ensure employees know their rights to report wrongdoing.
By law, all federal agency nondisclosure policies, forms and agreements must contain an “anti-gag” provision, which informs employees of their right to report waste, fraud or abuse to Congress and federal oversight authorities without retaliation. However, some agencies have illegally omitted this provision. Grassley wrote every federal agency with statutory Inspectors General (IG), as well as two Inspectors General Councils, requesting each IG review their respective agency’s nondisclosure policy to ensure it complies with the law.
“The importance of whistleblowers knowing their rights under the law cannot be stated enough, and federal agencies should encourage their employees to disclose allegations of waste, fraud and abuse,” Grassley wrote. “Federal agencies cannot be allowed to conceal their wrongdoing behind illegal non-disclosure policies and related actions.”
Grassley is the co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus.
Find Grassley’s letters HERE, and the list of agencies he contacted below.
- AmeriCorps, Office of Inspector General
- Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) OIG
- Appalachian Regional Commission OIG
- Architect of the Capitol OIG
- Central Intelligence Agency OIG
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission OIG
- Consumer Product Safety Commission OIG
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting OIG
- Council of Inspectors General on Financial Oversight
- Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
- Defense Intelligence Agency OIG
- Denali Commission OIG
- Department of Agriculture OIG
- Department of Commerce OIG
- Department of Defense OIG
- Department of Education OIG
- Department of Energy OIG
- Department of Health & Human Services OIG
- Department of Homeland Security OIG
- Department of Housing and Urban Development OIG
- Department of Justice OIG
- Department of Labor OIG
- Department of State OIG
- Department of the Interior OIG
- Department of the Treasury OIG
- Department of Transportation OIG
- Department of Veterans Affairs OIG
- Election Assistance Commission OIG
- Environmental Protection Agency OIG
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission OIG
- Export-Import Bank of the United States OIG
- Farm Credit Administration OIG
- Federal Communications Commission OIG
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation OIG
- Federal Election Commission OIG
- Federal Housing Finance Agency OIG
- Federal Labor Relations Authority OIG
- Federal Maritime Commission OIG
- Federal Reserve Board & CFPB OIG
- Federal Trade Commission OIG
- General Services Administration OIG
- Government Accountability Office OIG
- Government Publishing Office OIG
- International Trade Commission OIG
- Legal Services Corporation OIG
- Library of Congress OIG
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration OIG
- National Archives and Records Administration OIG
- National Credit Union Administration OIG
- National Endowment for the Arts OIG
- National Endowment for the Humanities OIG
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency OIG
- National Labor Relations Board OIG
- National Reconnaissance Office OIG
- National Science Foundation OIG
- National Security Agency OIG
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission OIG
- Office of Personnel Management OIG
- Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
- Peace Corps OIG
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation OIG
- Railroad Retirement Board OIG
- Securities and Exchange Commission OIG
- Small Business Administration OIG
- Smithsonian Institution OIG
- Social Security Administration OIG
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery
- Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief
- Tennessee Valley Authority OIG
- Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
- U.S. AbilityOne Commission OIG
- U.S. Agency for International Development OIG
- U.S. Capitol Police
- U.S. Development Finance Corporation OIG
- U.S. Postal Service OIG
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