Press Releases

Washington, DC, June 15, 2006. Today the heads of two whistleblower advocate groups sent a letter urging the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to close a loophole in pending legislation, the Federal Employee Protection of Disclosure Act. In the letter, the Chairman of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn and the […]

Washington, D.C., June 3, 2006 – Stephen M. Kohn, Chairman of the National Whistleblowers Center, appeared on CSPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Garcetti v. Ceballos.

5-4 Majority Strips Most Government Whistleblowers of Legal Protections Washington, D.C. – May 30, 2006. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, stripped most government employees of their whistleblower protections.  The Court held that public employees may be “discipline(d)” for exposing official misconduct, taxpayer fraud or public safety violations if their whistleblowing is made […]

April 17, 2006, Washington, DC. Today the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway v. White. At issue is whether an employer may be held liable for retaliatory discrimination for any adverse treatment that would “reasonably likely to deter” an employee from engaging in protected activity. This case […]