{"id":649,"date":"2025-10-19T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/?p=649"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:19:47","slug":"whistleblowers-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/2025\/10\/19\/whistleblowers-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblowers Under Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FEMA<\/strong> requires whistleblowers to publicly identify themselves or face termination, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblower.org\/in-the-news\/bloomberg-fema-tells-staff-to-name-whistleblowers-or-risk-losing-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>. \u201cNearly 200 current and former staffers co-signed the Aug. 25 whistleblower letter, which included a petition to Congress seeking workforce protections against \u201cpolitically motivated firings.\u201d Of the 192 signatories, 154 chose to remain anonymous.\u201d This requirement appears to violate the <strong>Whistleblower Protection Act<\/strong>, which \u201cgives federal employees the legal right to voice opinions on matters of public concern, including potential dangers to public health and safety, without adverse impacts on their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEMA requires whistleblowers to publicly identify themselves or face termination, reports Bloomberg. This requirement appears to violate the Whistleblower Protection Act, which &#8220;gives federal employees the legal right to voice opinions on matters of public concern, including potential dangers to public health and safety, without adverse impacts on their jobs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2025\/10\/Stop.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}