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
Today, Government Accountability Project, in partnership with Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) and Stand Up for Science (SUFS), announced their filing of whistleblower complaints against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on behalf of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) whistleblowers who wish to remain anonymous. The complaints have been sent to the Congress, the US Office of Special Counsel, and the DHS Office of Inspector General. The post Government Accountability Pr...| Government Accountability Project
The 119th Congress Poses a New Opportunity to Protect Whistleblower Rights for Federal Judiciary Employees Author: Olivia Hynes Nobody wants their civil rights to be violated by their employer. However, it is a sad reality that many Americans face. When it happens, though, there are Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) institutions in place to guide [...] The post The 119th Congress Poses a New Opportunity to Protect Whistleblower Rights for Federal Judiciary Employees appeared first on Gov...| Government Accountability Project
The 119th Congress Poses a New Opportunity to Protect Whistleblower Rights for Federal Judiciary Employees By: Maya Efrati, Olivia Hynes, Tara Davoodi In 2022, the Chief Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit received information that federal judge Kindred had engaged in misconduct. The ensuing investigation produced| Government Accountability Project
In the wake of revelations that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials employed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) put the Social Security information of over 300 million Americans at risk by placing a live copy of this data in a vulnerable cloud environment that circumvented standard oversight, whistleblower Charles Borges, the Chief Data Officer (CDO) at the SSA, has resigned. The post Social Security Whistleblower Resigns After Revealing Millions of Americans’ Data...| 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
A top data officer with the Social Security Administration asserted in a whistleblower complaint that members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded an extensive Social Security database onto a cloud server, putting at risk the security of more than 300 million Americans' personal information. The post Wall Street Journal: Whistleblower Says DOGE Put Social Security Data at Risk appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| 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 whistleblower in this case is Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, who alleges that DOGE members copied the highly sensitive data without any kind of “independent security monitoring,” which in turn created “enormous vulnerabilities.” The post MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Department of Government Efficiency employees at the Social Security Administration put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server, the agency’s chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday. The post CNN: DOGE put Americans’ Social Security records at risk, whistleblower says appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (Ore.) blasted the DOGE cost-cutting panel following a whistleblower report that alleged Americans’ financial and personal information was put on an unsecured cloud server. The post The Hill: Wyden slams DOGE over ‘reckless’ handling of Social Security data appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| 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
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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
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Today, Government Accountability Project submitted a protected whistleblower disclosure to the Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees with grave allegations of data security lapses that put over 300 million Americans’ social security information at risk.| Government Accountability Project
