Whistleblowing Case Study

James Terry was a former third in command at the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office that was apart of the Major of Operations. Terry had filled a complaint about Sheriff Al Nienhuis that he has hidden $1.3 millions dollar in revenue from collecting the housing of the federal inmates last year from the County Commission. This case has just started to begin under investigation and that the issue will be discuss further on July 11. This article has many ethical issues dealing with the government officials. One of them name James Terry who was whistleblowing on another government official that stated a Sheriff, Al Nienhuis has been hiding and taking the money from the County Commission (655). On the other hand Sheriff Al Nienhuis was a lobbyists in this article because he wanted the money from the government and the federal inmates housing (655). Therefore, what Terry has done by whistleblowing on another government official is called truth telling,
I also think that Terry who was whistleblowing on another sheriff was done because he was in a bad situation and was retried from the County Sheriff Office. This case had just begun so there is not much information on it yet; however, this case is an ethical issue because one of the sheriffs is hiding $1.3 million dollars from the County Commission and is asking for over $1.7 million increase that the sheriff had requested. This affected my view on a government official by reducing the trust in a government official. I think that this should be fix by having a more secure security in the system for the funds that a government official can receive and to track down where they get their money from if it is over $1 million dollars. For this kind of issue I do not think that the citizens play a part in this kind of case because it was a individual choice to take and his millions of dollars from the other