At Government Accountability Project, we believe that truth deserves a champion. That is why, for more than 40 years, we have assisted over 8,000 whistleblowers, some of the most impactful being science professionals. Employees in diverse fields in both the public and private sector have exercised their integrity, and their voices, by raising the alarm [...]
Read the original article by Government Accountability Project clients Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Pamela McPherson here. When we learned last week of the death of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin, we were serving as government experts briefing a delegation from Congress before lawmakers visited family detention facilities in South Texas. The news that Jakelin had died in [...]
Government Accountability Project Client to Brief Congressional Delegation And Press As Part Of Congressional Delegation Trip To The Karnes and Dilley Detention Facilities Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower and Government Accountability Project client Dr. Scott Allen will join a congressional delegation to the Karnes and Dilley child detention centers today at the invitation of [...]
Listen to the story here MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to go back now to one of the most contentious issues facing this administration - the large numbers of would-be migrant families remaining in detention centers. While the Trump administration says it has abandoned its policy of separating migrant parents and children at the border, thousands [...]
Read the original article here. The Sunday night television story was hard-hitting enough to draw a rebuttal from President Trump on Monday. After CBS News' “60 Minutes” broadcast interviews with Homeland Security Department specialists criticizing the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy that has separated arriving children from their parents and finding that the practice dated back further [...]
Last night, Government Accountability Project whistleblowers Drs. Scott Allen and Pamela McPherson, contractors with the Department of Homeland Security, spoke to the American public for the first time about the harms the Trump Administration’s policies of family separation and child detention are causing children in an explosive interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes. The doctors had privately reported [...]
On Tuesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that takes aim at “both the appearance and the potential for financial conflicts of interest” among those working for the government. Among other measures, the legislation would completely overhaul the current state of lobbying by imposing a lifetime ban on [...]
On July 17, Dr. Pamela McPherson and Dr. Scott Allen, who serve as subject matter experts for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, made the brave decision to blow the whistle on the government’s child detention practices. In their letter to the Senate’s Whistleblowing Caucus, Dr. McPherson and Dr. [...]
See the original story here. It’s bad enough the Trump administration ripped apart migrant families at the southern border and put children, including babies, in shelters that in many cases were more like jails. Making matters worse, Trump had no plan for reuniting children with parents. Since a federal judge stepped in and gave the government deadlines [...]
See the original story here. LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration, faced with a public outcry over the separation of migrant families at the Southwest border, has said it is exploring a major expansion of family detention centers. But two of the government’s own medical consultants said this week that they had identified a “high [...]
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