Coalition proposes to President Trump, Attorney General Barr, and two state governors that U.S. Law Enforcement Whistleblowers (LEWs) have special rights to thorough government investigations. Cases of former Tennessee and Ohio LEWs are emphasized.
ATLANTA – April 8, 2019 – PRLog — Sixteen grassroots good government advocacy groups with a combined total of nearly 20,000 members, are proposing a new way for President Trump, his Attorney General William Barr, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, as well as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to demonstrate that Blue Lives in fact matter to them. According to the coalition’s spokesperson, Dr. Zena Crenshaw-Logal, the group is calling out “Black, Brown, and Blue Lives Matter advocates who watch U.S. law enforcement officers get crucified for exposing misconduct and corruption in their departments.”
In an April 8, 2019 letter to President Trump, Mr. Barr, and Governors Lee as well as DeWine, the sixteen NGOs under the banner of Opt IN USA, harken to assertions “that our Department of Justice (DOJ) has long turned a proverbial blind eye, even when U.S. law enforcement whistleblowers (LEWs) advise it of retaliation against them through atypical if not outright specious criminal prosecutions.” The letter explains, “(t)his outreach is part of a multi-faceted, grassroots effort to secure exoneration of former Tennessee Deputy Sheriff Mark P. Lipton and former Ohio Deputy Sheriff Maurice Morris, respectively. Yet it is not merely a response to their personal plights as former LEWs.”
A 2016 article chronicling Lipton’s and Morris’ plight and referenced by the coalition’s letter is titled “How To Get Away With Career Murder: The Unconstitutional Blueprint for Systematically Purging Whistleblowers from U.S. Law Enforcement“. In light of that article, the coalition proposes that “all U.S. government agencies are obliged to suspend their deference and activate whatever oversight they have in regard to prosecutors who are at least negligent in addressing the prospect that probable cause was fabricated to precipitate retaliation through criminal prosecution of one or more LEWs (and perhaps any U.S. sworn public officer) for their work-related whistleblowing.” According to the group, “(t)hat negligence may coincide with retaliatory selective prosecution, and if the potentially targeted sworn public officer(s) cannot access government machinery to attempt proving his, her, or their innocence as readily as government process can be used to supposedly prove the contrary, any resulting conviction is constitutionally infirm.”
Crenshaw-Logal addresses the rights of Americans to thorough government investigations in a recently published article titled “When Guys in Dark Suits Want to Ask You A Few Questions”. Former deputy sheriffs Lipton and Morris are focal points of that article as well. The featured coalition letter to President Trump and other U.S. officials is linked at the end of the article.
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Apr 14, 2019 @ 12:19:48
From PEER ( Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility)
Leading Whistleblower Organizations Launch Update to Survival Guide For Whistleblowers on 30th Anniversary of Whistleblower Protection Act
Posted on Apr 11, 2019
Today, on the 30th Anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA), Project On Government Oversight (POGO), Government Accountability Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) are launching an updated resource for federal whistleblowers. The book, “Caught Between Conscience & Career: Expose Abuse Without Exposing Your Identity,” is a survival guide for whistleblowers.
Danielle Brian, Executive Director at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), said: “Whistleblowers are our first line of defense against waste, fraud, and abuse of power in the government. Without these brave Americans coming forward, there’s less transparency and accountability. While some progress has been made to protect those who come forward, often whistleblowers are still risking their careers and livelihood to disclose wrongdoing. Our survival guide is designed to inform government employees and contractors of the risks they face and provide tips on how to expose wrongdoing—everyone working in the federal sector should read this book, whether or not they plan on blowing the whistle.”
https://www.peer.org/news/press-releases/leading-whistleblower-organizations-launch-update-to-survival-guide-for-whistleblowers-on-30th-anniversary-of-whistleblower-protection-act.html
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