42-9.4-13. Retaliation -- Whistleblower protections.

(a) No agency, officer, or official shall take action against an official, officer, or employee

for disclosing or threatening to disclose the existence of any activity constituting waste, fraud,

abuse, or mismanagement to the inspector general, unless the disclosure or threatened disclosure

was made with knowledge that the disclosure was false or was made with willful disregard for its

truth or falsity.

(b) Any report disclosed by the office may differ from the complete written report in that

the inspector general shall have the discretion to redact or otherwise protect the names of

complainants and witnesses, or other information that, if not redacted, might compromise the

identity of a complainant or witness.

(c) The provisions chapter 50 of title 28 ("the Rhode Island whistleblowers' protection act")

shall be afforded to persons including, but not limited to, employees, reporting information under

this chapter.