Press Room

The National Whistleblower Center (NWC) released its End-of-Year Report, filled with whistleblower successes from 2016.  In the past year, the NWC continued its mission to strengthen whistleblower protections and incentives, defend whistleblowers’ rights, and educate people at home and abroad about the power of whistleblowers in combatting fraud and corruption. This year, the NWC was selected […]

Washington, D.C. November 27, 2012. President Barack Obama signed into law today the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Whistleblower attorneys working pro bono with the NWC played an instrumental role in passing this Act. NWC’s Executive Director Stephen Kohn testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee and David Colapinto testified before the House Government Oversight […]

President Barack Obama signed new whistleblower protections into law, the White House said Tuesday. The law, known as the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (pdf), expands protections for federal workers who blow the whistle on misconduct, fraud and illegality. It clarifies the scope of protected disclosures, tightens requirements for non-disclosure agreements, expands penalties for violating protections and adds to the […]

Washington, D.C. October 11, 2012 – Yesterday, the Obama Administration issued a Presidential Policy Directivedesigned to “protect” national security whistleblowers. The National Whistleblower Center recognizes the Directive as a small step forward, but strongly criticizes it as failing to provide any real or substantive legal rights for national security employees. The Directive appears on its face […]

Washington, D.C. September 27, 2012 — The National Whistleblower Center and the No FEAR Coalition announce their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers.  The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the Senate removed a final poison pill from […]