Office of the Attorney General v. Ginger Weatherspoon

This Whistleblower Act case raises a question we recently addressed iii Texas Department of Human Services v. Okoli: whether Reports of alleged violations of law are protected if made to supervisors with power only to oversee internal compliance within' an entity, even- if the supervisors must forward the complaints to another department with outward-looking authority to regulate under or enforce the law alleged to be violated or investigate or prosecute criminal violations against third parties. See 440 S.W.3d 611, 615-16 (Tex.2014). We held in Okoli that the Act does not protect such…