§ 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.

(Code 1956, § 22B-6; M.C.S., Ord. No. 17,613, § 1, 6-20-96)