Employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public dissent letter say the Department of Homeland Security violated whistleblower laws when placing them on administrative leave last week. The post Federal News Network: FEMA letter signers claim retaliation by DHS appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
The letter led by the Government Accountability Project asks for an investigation to be launched and once completed, "find that DHS has illegally retaliated against the FEMA whistleblowers and order immediate corrective action," including fully reinstating each worker to their jobs.| Government Accountability Project
Harmful, Adverse personnel actions are already accumulating for those who have signed letters or petitions Dissenting on recent agency actions (Dissents). More are waiting in the wings. We believe this violates employee's free speech regulations. Below is guidance for you on your anti-retaliation rights that you can use to defend yourself. It may be helpful in preparing responses to adverse agency personnel actions. The post KNOW YOUR WHISTLEBLOWER RIGHTS: GUIDANCE FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ...| Government Accountability Project
Legal and whistleblower experts say the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law when it put more than 30 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on leave last week after they signed an open letter of dissent about agency leadership. In a new letter obtained by The Washington Post, the Government Accountability Project is calling on federal lawmakers and oversight agencies to investigate what it calls “illegal retaliation.” The post The Washington Post: Trump administrat...| Government Accountability Project
Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class action in American history.”| Government Accountability Project
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.| Government Accountability Project
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, said the potential sensitive information that risks being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.| Government Accountability Project
The top data official from the Social Security Administration is warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk of exposure to malicious actors.| Government Accountability Project
A whistleblower accused officials tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of putting the personal details of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) most sensitive database into a “vulnerable” cloud server.| Government Accountability Project