§ 602.501. Legislative Findings and Purpose.

The City Council finds that it is in the best interests of the consolidated government of the City of Jacksonville, its constitutional officers and independent agencies to ensure that employees who have knowledge of unlawful activity, misfeasance or malfeasance by the City or its independent contractors report such knowledge to the appropriate authorities for investigation and corrective action. In order to encourage employees to report such information without fear of reprisal, it shall be the policy of the consolidated government of the City of Jacksonville to prohibit adverse action against an employee who has been properly designated as a whistleblower for disclosing such information to an appropriate official or agency.

Recognizing that the State of Florida has adopted its own Whistleblower's Act, F.S. §§ 112.3187, et seq. (1993) and that the State Act provides for the adoption of local procedures for administrative enforcement, the City Council intends that this Part be interpreted consistently with the State Act, as it may from time to time be amended.

(Ord. 2013-287-E, § 1)