Texas Department of Human Services v. Oliver Okoli

in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice GUZMAN joined.

The Texas Whistleblower Act protects public employees who in good faith report violations of law to an appropriate law-enforcement authority. Tex. Gov’t Code § 554.002(a). In this case, an employee reported wrongdoing to his supervisor, who was required to forward the report to a part of the agency with outward-looking law-enforcement authority. We find this case indistinguishable from our previous cases interpreting the Act that hold reports of wrongdoing to a supervisor are not good-faith reports to an…