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If an agency was absolutely determined to find out which employee reported malfeasance, how successful would they be?  It depends on how careful the employee is when speaking up – and unfortunately,...

David Apol, the current head of the Office of Government Ethics raised some eyebrows this past week when he directed government employees to avoid damaging public perception of the government’s...

Investigators often encounter descriptions of events that are totally at odds with each other in the course of their interviews.  In many cases, it can be chalked up to different perspectives; in...

If you’ve worked in an office for more than about two weeks, you understand what a purposeless business meeting can do to an office.  If you’ve got one per week, you know how it can interrupt the...

There are many things that make managing investigators different than other management roles.  For instance, investigators are more likely to be attentive to detail, and interested in adherence to...

One of the largest problems government agencies face when hiring is the hiring process itself.  There’s plenty of complaints to go around.  It is complicated.  It takes more than six months in many...

According to CIGIE’s new Oversight.gov website, the 73 Federal IG offices receive a half million complaints a year.  Through the hard work of investigators and auditors, these tips lead to a more...

As public agencies prioritize their tasks for the year, they consider several things including their major ongoing projects, their mission statements and directives from the executive bodies that...

If your agency has ever put together a "wishlist" for a case management system, whether through an RFP process or a less formalized process, you know it can be difficult to capture all of your...