The Best Way to Honor Whistleblowers on National Whistleblower Appreciation Day? Do More to Protect Them

In recognition of National Whistleblower Appreciation Day, coming up on July 30, we were asked to contribute a guest post on the Government Accountability Project’s website, which can be found here. GAP is the nation’s leading non-profit, non-partisan whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, which helps expose wrongdoing to the public and actively promotes government and corporate accountability. Since its founding in 1977, GAP has represented over 5,000 whistleblowers in the court of law and in the court of public opinion, including hundreds of whistleblowers who have reported financial misconduct.

Now, we are partnering with GAP and a growing coalition, representing more than 250 organizations and nearly two million citizens, to urge the SEC to take action to protect SEC whistleblowers from retaliation and other attempts by employers to restrict their employees’ rights to participate in the SEC Whistleblower Program. We believe that this important effort will help protect and strengthen the SEC Whistleblower Program. For more information or to get involved, please click here.