The U.S. Department of Justice is flashing a green light to whistleblowers in its own ranks. On Wednesday, the agency announced the creation of a new position in the Office of the Inspector General—that of “whistleblower ombudsperson,” one of few such positions in the federal government.
Filling that new role is Robert Storch, a longtime federal prosecutor who has focused largely on public corruption and white collar crime. At the Justice Department, he’s now tasked with training employees on the importance of whistleblowers in improving agency operations, in addition to educating them about protections against retaliation, according to an agency announcement [PDF].
