whistleblowers

1. October 17, 2026News1 receipt2 min

   DOJ seeks comments on reinstating its voluntary FBI whistleblower corrective-action form

   An October 16 notice proposes reinstating a previously approved information collection for current or former FBI employees and applicants alleging whistleblower reprisal. Comments are accepted until December 15. DOJ estimates 15 respondents a year and three hours per response; those are paperwork estimates, not counts of substantiated retaliation or a deadline for an individual's corrective-action request.

   Also filed underfbijustice-departmentpublic-commentspaperwork-burden

2. September 17, 2026News1 receipt2 min

   DHS took more than three years to investigate most whistleblower retaliation complaints, and then took between four months and two years to decide what to do about the ones it substantiated.

   GAO's September 17 report on the Department of Homeland Security found its Office of Inspector General took over three years to investigate 39 of the 73 whistleblower retaliation cases it opened and closed in fiscal years 2018 through 2025. Where a complaint was substantiated, the Secretary is expected to decide on corrective action within 30 days; GAO found those decisions waited a further four months to over two years. OIG officials cited case complexity and limited staff, and said they had focused on quality and thoroughness rather than timeliness. GAO's finding is narrower and harder to argue with: OIG policy requires timely review but has never defined what timely means in measurable terms, evaluated its own timeliness, or built any mechanism to hold itself to one.

   Also filed undergaodhsoversightfederal-workforce

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