Retaliation Prohibited

(a)Except as provided in Subsection

(b)of this Section, no appointing authority or supervisor shall initiate or administer any disciplinary action against an employee on account of the employee’s disclosure of information. This Section shall not apply to:

(1)An employee who discloses information that he knows to be false or who discloses information with disregard for the truth or falsity thereof;

(2)An employee who discloses information from public records which are closed to public inspection pursuant to Chapter 10 of Title 5, Guam Code Annotated;

(3)An employee who discloses information which is confidential under any other provision of law.

(b)It shall be the obligation of an employee who wishes to disclose information under the protection of this Article to make a good faith effort to provide to his supervisor or appointing authority or member of I Liheslaturan Guåhan the information to be disclosed prior to the time of its disclosure.