[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 28, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 28CFR27.2]



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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION

 

                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

PART 27_WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION FOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

EMPLOYEES--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart A_Protected Disclosures of Information

 

Sec. 27.2  Prohibition against reprisal for making a protected disclosure.



    (a) Any employee of the FBI, or of any other component of the 

Department, who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, 

or approve any personnel action shall not, with respect to such 

authority, take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a 

personnel action, as defined below, with respect to any FBI employee as 

a reprisal for a protected disclosure.

    (b) Personnel action means any action described in clauses (i) 

through (xi) of 5 U.S.C. 2302(a)(2)(A) taken with respect to an FBI 

employee other than one in a position which the Attorney General has 

designated in advance of encumbrance as being a position of a 

confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating 

character.