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Senate Committee Votes Bi-partisan Mandate for Government Contractor Whistleblower Protections

March 6, 2024   Senate Committee Unanimously Votes Bi-partisan Mandate for Government Contractor Whistleblower Protections     WASHINGTON – This morning, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs issued a unanimous bi-partisan mandate for taxpayer accountability.  In a unanimous vote, the Committee passed S. 1524, Expanding Whistleblower Protections for Contractors Act of 2023. The legislation, [...]

EPA Continues Denial of Elevated Dioxin Levels in East Palestine, Ohio 

February 9, 2024    EPA Continues Denial of Elevated Dioxin Levels in East Palestine, Ohio     WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a statement on their response to our press release on the inaccurate dioxin reporting the agency conducted in East Palestine, Ohio. The agency stated, “Recent reporting on this issue is inaccurate [...]

2024-02-09T17:10:20-05:00February 9th, 2024|East Palestine, Environment, EPA, Press release, Transparency|

MENAFM: A Win For Canada’s Public Servant Whistleblowers

MENAFM: A Win For Canada's Public Servant Whistleblowers This article features Government Accountability Project Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here. President -History was made recently when the peoples representatives in the House of Commons voted unanimously to improve the whistleblower protection law. OTTAWA, ON, CANADA, February 8, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- [...]

2024-02-09T09:23:04-05:00February 9th, 2024|In The News, International, Transparency|

Reclaim the Net: Advocacy Group Seeks EPA Records on Facebook Censorship of East Palestine Train Derailment Posts

The need for information sought via the request to be revealed is explained by whistleblower and scientist Scott Smith “(discovering) elevated dioxin levels in East Palestine” – and then when posting about it on Facebook, only to get his “public figure” account flagged.

Our Public Comment Warns HHS About Whistleblower Chilling in Proposed ORR Rule

December 14, 2023  Our Public Comment Warns HHS About Whistleblower Chilling in Proposed ORR Rule  WASHINGTON – In an effort to codify the decades old Flores Settlement Agreement, which serves as the governing document for the care of noncitizen children in government custody, in October of 2023 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [...]

2024-01-19T13:59:49-05:00December 14th, 2023|Immigration, Press release, Transparency|

Byline Times: ‘The Power Imbalance is Enormous’: Inside the Ordeal of Employment Tribunals

Byline Times: ‘The Power Imbalance is Enormous’: Inside the Ordeal of Employment Tribunals This article features Government Accountability Project Staff Attorney and International Program Director, Samantha Feinstein. When industrial – later renamed employment – tribunals began hearing employment claims in the 1970s, legislators hoped for a ‘speedy’ resolution to workplace disputes. The worker would [...]

2023-11-16T15:34:00-05:00November 16th, 2023|In The News, International, Transparency|

Blitz: Bangladeshis illegally bought citizenship of Caribbean countries

Caribbean nation Dominica is accused of selling citizenship under its ‘citizenship by investment’ program, which allows the purchase of a passport for a base price of US$100,000, whereas Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is accused of selling citizenship to oligarchs, officials from repressive regimes, politicians, human rights abusers, drug and weapon traffickers, money-launderers, and notorious criminals.