The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board held a meeting today where they passed a new resolution establishing a whistleblower policy within the district.
The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board of Supervisors passed a new resolution to establish a whistleblower policy in today’s board meeting.
The board claimed staff within the area felt their grievances or concerns were “falling on deaf ears,” and as a board they wanted to ensure their policy was to be “open, honest, transparent and receptive.” The full text for adopting the resolution is below. You can access the full document here.
In consultation with the District’s labor attorney, it was determined that the District does not currently have a specific whistleblower policy within its personnel policies. Thereafter, the Acting General Counsel requested the labor attorney to prepare a whistleblower policy for the Board of Supervisor’s consideration.
This proposed Policy is intended to provide guidance to and assist employees and persons that have knowledge of unlawful activity, misfeasance, or malfeasance by the District, its employees, or its independent contractors, in reporting such knowledge so that the District can address and correct inappropriate conduct and actions. In order to encourage reporting of such information without fear of reprisal, this Policy prohibits adverse action against an employee or person who has disclosed information to an...
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