Leahy Introduces The Federal Employee Access To Information Act To Protect Federal Employees From Retaliation For Filing FOIA Requests

. . . Helping Preserve FOIA as a Tool to Expose Government Wrongdoing

Press Release, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), along with Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, introduced the Federal Employee Access to Information Act to ensure that federal employees are able to use the nation’s premier transparency law, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), without reprisal.  

FOIA helps expose government wrongdoing and abuses, and Leahy believes that federal employees must be free to use FOIA in the same way as other citizens.  This legislation would prohibit retaliation against federal employees for filing and pursuing FOIA requests

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