City Inspector General To Offer Cash Rewards For Tips

Program urges residents, workers to report government misdeeds and waste

City employees or residents who tip off the inspector general's office to misdeeds will be eligible for cash rewards under a program approved by the city's spending board today.

Under the policy, tipsters could receive 10 percent of the money saved by the city in exchange for providing "substantial information not previously known" by the inspector general's office, comptroller or law department.

Inspector General David McClintock said the policy is modeled after a federal program and is intended to encourage residents and employees to speak out about government waste.
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