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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) Complaint.--The State Inspector General may receive and investigate a complaint or information concerning the possible existence of an activity in an executive agency constituting any of the following:
(1) A violation of a law, rule or regulation.
(2) Mismanagement, fraud, waste of funds, abuse of authority, malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance.
(3) A substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety.
(b) Disclosure.--No person may take or threaten to take action against an employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing information to the State Inspector General, except if the complaint was made or the information was disclosed with the knowledge that the complaint or information was false or with willful disregard for the truth or falsity of the complaint or information.
(c) Protection.--The protections in this article for employees who report, in good faith, fraud, waste, misconduct, malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance or abuse shall be in addition and supplementary to each protection provided by the act of December 12, 1986 (P.L. 1559, No.169), 1 known as the Whistleblower Law.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 71 P.S. State Government § 217. Complaint, disclosure and reprisal (Adm. Code § 507-A) - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-71-ps-state-government/pa-st-sect-71-217/
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