In 1912, President William Howard Taft signed into law the Lloyd — La Follette Act which protected civil servants from “unwarranted or abusive removal” and gave employees the right to furnish information to members of Congress without interference. This in effect became the first law to protect whistleblowers in the United States. Since then, numerous laws have been established to protect whistleblowers in both the government and the privates sector in areas as diverse as environmental regulations to taxes.
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