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Introduction and Related Legistlation

Introduction:

The introduction already has a great overview. I think we should keep it the way that it already is, since all the websites I have visited have the same general summary as the Wikipedia page already has. I would only add these revisions -

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, Pub.L. 101-12 as amended, is a United States federal law that protects civil servants who work for the government and report agency misconduct. A federal agency violates the Whistleblower Protection Act if agency authorities take (or threaten to take) retaliatory personnel action against any employee or applicant because of the disclosure of information by that employee or applicant. Whistleblowers[1] may file complaints that they believe has reasonable evidence of a violation of a law, rule or regulation; gross mismanagement; gross waste of funds; an abuse of authority; or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.

Related Legislation:

I am not sure if you guys noticed, however the related legislation is very similar to the section of Whistleblower Enhancement Act and Presidential Policy Directive 19. We could combine both of these, but they do mention All Circuit Review Extension Act

Information from: https://www.afge.org/?PressReleaseID=1689 and also All Circuit Review Extension Act Wikipedia page and https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2390/all-info-

On July 14, 2014, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the All Circuit Review Extension Act (H.R. 4197; 113th Congress), a bill that gives authority to federal employees who want to appeal their judgment to any federal court, and instead allows them to appeal to any U.S. Court of Appeals that has jurisdiction. The bill would extend from three years after the effective date of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (i.e., December 27, 2012), the period allowed for: (1) filing a petition for judicial review of Merit Systems Protection Board decisions in whistleblower cases, and (2) any review of such a decision by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).[8][9]

There is also a bill in its early stages called the FBI Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. This bill was introduced by Senators Grassley and Leahy in 2015. It would protect whistleblowers in the FBI more completely from reprisals by supervisors, by assigning administrative law judges to adjudicate the cases, and enabling FBI employees to appeal their decisions to the courts. This bill is still in the process of possibly getting passed and has individuals cosponsoring it as recently as last month. [10][11] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ejr43 (talk • contribs) 14:52, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

History of Whistleblower Protection

As cited from The review of Personnel Administration, Whistle Where You work? The original discussion of Whistleblowing

began in 1863 with President Abraham Lincoln, referring to the issue of fake gun powder being sold to soldiers in the Union during the Civil War. The result of this wrongdoing was the False Claims Act of 1863, created by President Lincoln, that later became known as the "Lincoln Law", an act aimed towards deterring and punishment of those individuals who were supplying substandard supplies to the Union Army for the purpose of supporting the South. This act encouraged a relationship between Private and Public entities the "Encouraged individual citizens to file suit on behalf of the federal government. "The Act initially permitted Whistlebllowers to collect 50% of the money recovered by the government."(Eaton & Akers, 2007)

an issue that arose from this offer was that citizens began reporting common information of wrongdoing that was already known but the federal government was still required to pay-up to all who came forward, thus leading to the act being amended. This created a "Government Knowledge Bar" preventing compensation on information that was already known and also reducing the amount of compensation that can be collected, thus causing less incentive for whistleblowers to come forward. (Eaton & Akers, 2007) Later, President Ronald Regan amended the False Claims Act. In 1986, the Act provided the " Legal protections and remedies for Whistleblowers who are harassed, threatened, discharged or otherwise discriminated against in their employment because of their whistleblowing" (False Claims Act of 1986, 2012)

Authorized Federal Agencies Section

I feel that the authorized federal agencies don’t give us enough information on what they do and what they specialize on. They give random facts about it instead. Giving broader information on what the federal agencies have to do with the Whistleblower Protection Act would give us a better understanding. These are the revisions I would add:

Office of Special Counsel Their basic authorities come from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).​​​​ The primary mission of OSC is to safeguard the merit system by protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices, especially reprisal for whistleblowing.

The mission of the MSPB is to "Protect the Merit System Principles and promote an effective Federal workforce free of Prohibited Personnel Practices." The Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) authorized the Board to hear appeals of various agency actions, including appeals previously heard by the Civil Service Commission and appeals arising from new causes of action created by the CSRA.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was established under Article III of the Constitution on October 1, 1982. The judges of the court are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Federal Circuit is particularly known for its decisions on patent law, as it is the only appellate-level court with the jurisdiction to hear patent case appeals. A m723 (talk) 22:09, 13 April 2016 (UTC)Aracely A m723 (talk) 22:09, 13 April 2016 (UTC)