blower complaint is given to the staff. when it's a revised version, it's a portion of the law in which the local agencies would be involved in a complaint that is made to a state or federal agency. both the controller's office and the department of human resources felt that because of a number of issues, that it would be almost impossible to track whistle blower complaints to the state or federal agencies or offices. the difficulty comes with a lack of sharing of certain confidential information and a number of other provisions that we simply in working with them did not believe we could include in this item. however, going to the 2017 version, there's expansions in the clarification that rectify that revision, including, as i said, requiring supervisors to obtain training that we have all taken regarding whistle blower complaints and the proper method and procedure to identify those complaints and what they need to do when they receive those complaints and how to do that in a timely fashion. it delegates responsibilities

investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more

one was anti-corruption and accountability that the commission referred, and, secondly, whistle-blower ordinance, that when were helping to move those along. those were the two priority items we noted. and thirdly, election 2018 work, under the leadership of our new programs officer and her team. and for the coming year, we did cite -- they asked for issues or items that were going to require -- that they called potential threats and they other top priorities. and the election of the campaign fund, so it speaks to commissioner kopp's point. we need to assess the fund and make sure that it has adequate funds to sustain levels for june, 2018, as well as 2019 mayoral election, as well as 2018, november election. we'll be working with the city attorney's office and control r controller's office to make sure that we have the bases covered. and also the i.t. development, the technologies in place, and moving along to help convert our paper files to an electronic environment. so we had that in the briefing of the new, acting mayor. and, lastly -- well, two other items. we've made very good pr

derek kerr, a whistle blower. why do organizations retaliate against whistle blowers? it's because whistle blowers have inside information about wrong doing and there by represent a threat. whistle blowers are viewed as insider threats. unfortunately the whistle blower program's quarterly report issued in december includes a bulletin warning about insider threats. we are told these are employees who "negatively affect organizational assets." that definition could qualify whistle blowers as insider threats because it depends on who defines what is a negative impact on an organization. the term insider threat is derived from national security programs that were installed after the chelsea manning and edward snowden revelations. importantly, it applies to intelligence agencies that handle classified information, not to city agencies that handle mostly public records. this bulletin targets disgruntled employees without the difference of those who want to fix a problem and those who are criminals. even speaking out is labelled as a red flag. the bulletin doesn't mention non

program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. benedict. >> we're back in session and we'll now go to item nine which is discussion of the enforcement report and discussion on various program highlights and various activity since the last monthly meeting. >> thank you, chair. we had a productive month. received nine new complaints. we opened 11 new investigations, and we dismissed 23 complaints which put a significant dent in our outstanding preliminary review matters. the details for which i can -- oh, no, i have it in here. 58 complaints only remain in preliminary review. so when we started this process, when we were down all investigators, we had almost 190 unreviewed complaints, and we're down to 58, so i'm proud of my staff. they're doing a great job. and thanks to everyone in the review chain that has to get through all that information. it's a heavy lift. i also wanted to highlight that you'll recall the sunshine ordinance task force received a complaint that this commission violated the sunshine ordinance regarding taking

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slav keyial and the fired chiefpliance officer he filed a complaint about the was fired as a whistle-blower. he has got ato him on the show . i am bill spadea, this is "chasing news." the battle over immigration reform heats up. president trump now accused of saying some vulgar things about some countries that have sent immigrants to america of course he pis behind closed doors the president took to twitter and clear he is not happy with the results from his meeting with congressional leaders. all right. let's check win mark who caught up with new jersey goff-elect. one at sacred heart cathedral in hu wark. mark caught up with him and asked him. mark? what do you got? >> yes, i did speak to governor-elect murphy here at the roman catholic cathedral in newark. beautiful jewel. what eventually governor-elect murphy said regarding president trump's comments about haiti. >> comments about haiti. >> incredible offensive. it is not america. it is not we are. i would encourage the president to read the basis of the statute of liberty written in the 1880's t. that is america. >> is there a buzz aro

. ♪ >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound thelarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charitable program also accepts complaints by e-mail or 0 folk you can file a complaint or provide contact information seen by whistle blower investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide infor

program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. an -- welcome to members of ocii and the public. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you. first order of business is item one, roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. [roll call taken] >> all members of the commission are present. the next order of business is item two, announcements. next regularly scheduled meeting held on february 6, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. at city hall room 416. b, announcement of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting. please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. adviced the chair may order removal from the meeting of any persons responsible for ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic devices. c, announcement of time allotment for public comments. advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments unless the commiss

program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. up early to watch this, we thank you. we know that this will be played at subsequent times for others to be able to see what we are doing here. okay. also, the president is going to join us. she's the -- a commissioner of this committee. >> this is to address the infrastructure and transportation and that do not appear on the agenda. in addition to public comment, public comment will be held on each item on the agenda. >> there northeast public comment. >> i'm no. 3, consent agenda. all matters listed here under a constituted consent agenda are considered to be routine by the committee and will be acted on by a single vote of the committee. there will be no separate vote unless the member of the committee suggests and it will be removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item. item 3a, approving the minutes of the meeting. >> i move for the approval. >> i second the motion. >> item no. 4, environmental program support. >> thank you, chair richardson, director and pre

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he thinks it is a leaf blower, not snow blower. >> it is a leaf blower. i will confirm that. >> okay. >> it is a leaf blower. >> yes. >> but it is working. >> can't fool us. >> really, pretty early in the morning. >> hey we found one sue. >> yes. >> we got this, if you want to take a picture with us, come by about 10:00 this morning fourth and market, we will let you put this on, snap a pick of it, you know, something like that. >> because this is hotdog right now people trying to get it. it is sold out. look at you. >> i relish that thought. >> okay. let's go. >> you need catch up on the wetter. >> sore. >> i that's just not cutting the mustard. here is the snow that's coming through the area right now. it will continue for a few oh maybe another hour and a half i think we have for the bulk of this storm. and any place you see that blue-ish color, it is snowing kind of heavily and there is transition from rain to snow in new jersey. we will examine that little more closely in a couple every minutes, four out of ten messy out there this morning and watch

moving on to the whistle-blower ordinance. we heard a member of the public speak on this item earlier today. we have continued to work with the city attorney's office and d.h.r. to make amendments and review the ordinance. and we can begined to move forward with that process. we're keeping tabs on the process as it's formally scheduled with that employee relations director. our executive director may have more of an update in her report. section 2, the pending items in front of us, as it relates to item a, we're now on page 4, i believe, of this agenda item. skipping down to 1708-68, legislation pending from supervisor kim. staff and the commissioners have met about supervisor kim and continuing to monitor that legislation and working with supervisor kim's office to give recommendations and advice as that legislation moves forward. with the events of the last week, we've been on hold as far as this agenda item and others go, but we're monitoring that legislation with supervisor kim. moving on to the sort of -- to page 5, the l

she based herself on a person calling herself a whistle—blower and the account of this whistle—blowerf any evidence i would resign on the spot. and yes, i'm sorry, the issue with mrs caruana galizia is that she has said things that were facts, she wrote stories that were cutting edge but then these were coupled with things that were false. now, i don't know that whether she knew what she was saying against me or about me was false, whether she was part of this invention, or whether she was fed the story by this whistle—blower, or someone else, and maybe it looked too true, too good not to be true, let's put it that way, because it fitted the narrative that some people wanted to put in. the charge in a nutshell is that you're the artful dodger of europe. well, if that is the charge i'm definitely not guilty of that. i think it's, you know, preposterous. i do believe that our success story as a country might not go down well with others. but it is a success story that will continue for a long time. after daphne caruana galizia's assassination, her son matthew wrote, if institutions were

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blower law only applies to employment, and not retaliation for example in services. say you have a city contractor who is providing assisted housing and someone in the assisted housing files a complaint that money is being skimmed or people are jumping ahead on the list or what have you, in retaliation they're ehe -- evicted. that's apparently not covered in the law from what i understand. is that your understanding as well? >> correct. as it relates to retaliation, the side of the house we live on is the investigation side. we don't handle the retaliation. that is on the ethics side. and i know that they're quite aware and are working on various pieces of legislation. >> do you investigate non employment whistle blowing? >> if it's around getting city funds, we'll look into the complaints. >> i believe a citizen can use the program to report abuse of funds by city employees. so -- >> so rigging a waiting list would be abusing the funds. >> yes. >> i was looking at some of the audits you listed here and i didn't find all of them online. the one you did on ethics at t

job for what he said was pointing out what was wrong with new jersey transit, he filed a whistle-blower complain with department of labor, that could head to a federal court, todd welcome back to "chasing news." >> thank you, bill. bill: you filed that complaint, what is your hope to expose with new jersey transit by filing the whistle-blower. >> first, i want to get out my message, let everyone know what really happened. new jerseyng with engine noj transit, i am i think we have a new governor today, timing to get this in front of them as he took office. as new administration went in provide them with an opportunity to really see what is wrong with new jersey transit. >> you said get your story out, new jersey transit gave us a statement last week, they dispute every thing you said. they are saying they fired you for cause. >> it was baseless, they defense file a by every stretch of the imagine nation a law case book, example of a slap suit, a lawsuit against public participation, they tried to silence me, they didn't want me testifying, they didn't want me saying what really happened

committee is investigating a possible connection between the so-called secret society and whistle-blower claims. >> i have heard from somebody who has talked to the committee that they were holding off-site meetings. there were indications there were a number of high level fbi officials. >> johnson and the republican chairman chuck grassley want answers from the justice department's watchdog, inspector whhoro wks itz. and why their committees were told by horowitz that their tests were recovered when they were missing. >> to find the text messages through other forms, whether it's the old phones, whether it's going to some of these technology companies that were involved and seeing if they have them. >> in a text made public last year, page and strzok talking about avoiding detection. page writes, look you say we text on that phone because it can't be traced. federal law enforcement officers tell fox the missing texts are part of a broader technical problem affecting 10% of the fbi's cell phones. at least one republican wants for answers from the former attorney general. >> what i do wan

this one's too much for the leave blower but not enough to get the snow blower out, so kind of inn between. >> reporter: and we have been seeing crews working hard all morning long. you can see for the most part the roads are getting clear. still a little slush and ice on there. coming up next at 11:30 we're going to hop into storm force 10 here give you another look at the highway and roads. >> thanks, randy. >>> take a lye look at radar where you can see where the snow is still falling in our area. meantime parts of the south are still dealing with heavier snow than we had. here's a look at road conditions in raleigh, north carolina this morning. some juries have already had 6 inches of snow. glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the system moving out and we've got stuff moving in, glenn. >> cold air, and that flag is an indication it's a west wind and there's bitter cold air in western pennsylvania. this is a good time to try to get rid of the snow on your sidewalks and driveways because everything's going freeze up by tonight as temperatures plunge. well, we have drier air coming in fro

this is too much for the leaf blower but not enough to get the snow blower out. >> this time lapse from storm force ten shows how snowcovered the windy hills were at the height of the snowfall. a light day for people who had to shovel in montgomery county. this is the montgomery court apartments. just a couple passes is all it took. camel back mountain in the poconos. they're really excited about how much snow they got there. and the snow stopped now. still a threat for some refreezing tonight. >> first alert meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is joining us withior most accurate forecast. >> this cold air is coming in on those winds. the flags blowing. that's a west wind, and it's cold, and everything that is slushy or has been slushy is refreezing tonight because it's going to get real cold. it's going to stay cold through friday but, boy, do we have some much warmer weather coming over the weekend. the radar over the last six hours shows the last of the snow moving off south jersey. we did have some snow real close to the southern delaware border here but so far, it's staying just

blower, too. snow fall forecast, 1 to 2 inches. this is tomorrow in the northeast. this is today in e ohioth look . winter storm watches for san antonio tomorrow morning, some ice. >>> and we do have a big warm upcoming by the end of this week many will appreciate. >> sure will. all right. thank you, bill. >>> new this earn monthing surveillance video of a bizarre crash in santa ana california, a car wound up wedged in the second floor of an office building. the driver lost control, over the divider, went airborne. there were two people in the car. one of them was able to climb out. the other was trapped for more than an hour. look at that picture there. they had to be rescued by emergency workers. can you imagine both of them only suffered minor injuries after that. >> the durks of hazard. a boat fire that forced 50 people into the water. we have the video. and honoring dr. martin luther king, jr. today. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our tu

steele was a whistle-blower, someone that our chairman of judiciary has always protected. he came to the f.b.i. with concerns that donald trump was subject to blackmail. any american would worry about that. the chairman took that action unilaterally. that is, asking for criminal charges without consulting with or providing notice to the minority. yet still expressed outrage at the ranking member of his committee released the transcript of his committe comm. there's a fundamental double standard here. you can't complain, mr. chairman, of judiciary, about our side doing things unilaterally if you do them unilaterally. we want to work in a bipartisan way. so i applaud my friend, the senior senator from california, for releasing that transcript. it contained information that was crucial for the american people to read and understand in order to judge for themselves the allegations my friends across the aisle have made. you make a serious allegation from someone but say no one can see the information, that's not fair. that's not how we work here in america. now, in the foreign

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on the assistant secretary for accountability and whistle-blower protection, mr. o'rourke is the executive in charge of the accountability and whistle-blower protection office and he's here today. >> that prompts me to tell you what happened this morning in the health committee. we had testimony on disasters and preparedness and out of the blue one of the chief people in charge of that for our country took a point to compliment the veterans administration on what the veterans hospitals and medical personnel did to help in the rescue of senior citizens in houston during the terrible flood we had, which magnified for me the importance of remembering that the v.a. health care system is a huge delivery system that serves by the nature of its veterans, a more senior population and i want to compliment you and the doctors to do what they did to earn that praise because that's a real good thing to have. >> thank you. >> from a standpoint of accountability, i want to see some accountability with regard to the appeals process. i read your report and i read your remarks. i

besides the testimonies and besides the things that mr rochon cove the number one whistle blower and the russian doping scandal what was the cornerstone element of the i.o.c. evidence what was the only forensic evidence in this case these were the damaged bottles from saatchi and the scratches but. that is the manufacturer of produce the equipment for saw as well and it was the same model so this is something that is raising questions and we also have to bear in mind that neither the mcclaren investigative team nor the next team that was appointed by the international olympic committee to look into this they never showed us visual proof of their experiments with the bottles and that's something that's very important here so if the bottles had indeed been flawed what else can happen what else can we say about the saatchi ones and this forensic evidence as the i.o.c. puts it when it comes to the russian athletes and spare interesting and do that easily into trying to thank you. fifty two people are dead after being burned alive in a bus fire in the western part of kazakhstan only five

reporter: another positive out of arizona one of the original phoenix whistle-blowers brandon coleman promoted to va office of accountability in whistle-blower protection in d.c. >> we're taking a proactive approach instead of a reactive approach. reporter: the biggest problem is public perception and trying to let the community make improvements on the ground, rick. rick: sounds like some signs of progress. what are the veterans in phoenix telling you? >> yeah, when you talk to the veterans who use that facility in phoenix, some say there are major improvements. the choice act which was pushed by senator john mccain helped with that. others say there are lingering problems and they have a long way to go. the one out of five ranking, the facilities had that two years in a row, reflects the sentiments. >>> the white house about to roll out details of immigration plan, but sparking fierce criticism on left and the right can. lawmakers find common ground with another funding deadline right around the corner? >> the whole point is amnesty today, enforcement and illegal immigration form a