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Committee removes vendor name from whistleblower policy, debates anonymity and compliance officer placement
Summary
The committee agreed to remove an explicit vendor reference (Lighthouse) from the whistleblower policy and route reports to a district compliance officer; members debated whether that routing preserves whistleblower anonymity and where the compliance officer should sit in the organization.
Committee members discussed edits to policies on fraud and whistleblower reporting that remove a named third-party vendor and instead place the primary responsibility with a district compliance officer.
"So we are ditching Lighthouse and going..." the chair said while reading the proposed language. The draft adds that the compliance officer may not disclose the identity of a whistleblower without the whistleblower’s consent unless…
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