§ 2-772. Freedom from reprisal and disclosure of improper acts.
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(a)
Any public employee who reports information which the employee reasonably believes
is a violation of any ordinance, statute, policy, order, rule, regulation or other
ethical mandate shall be free from discipline or reprisal for reporting such acts
of alleged impropriety. An employee with authority to hire and fire, supervisor, agency
head, or elected official may not subject to reprisal any public employee because
of such employee's efforts to disclose such acts of alleged impropriety.
(b)
The provisions of this section are in addition to the protection afforded by the state
code of governmental ethics and the rules of the city civil service commission to
public employees who report acts of impropriety to the employee's agency head, civil
service, the ethics review board, or the state board of ethics for elected officials
or commission on ethics for public employees.