INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Proposed laws to protect whistleblowers and to make stealing public funds more difficult will be introduced in the General Assembly next year.
Attorney General Greg Zoeller on Friday presented the package of proposed legislation drafted by a Public Integrity Coalition created this year to battle local corruption. Republican state Sen. Ed Charbonneau of Valparaiso will introduce the legislative proposals.
The coalition says State Board of Accounts audits over the past five years have uncovered 250 cases of government corruption, including 156 cases in which the state is still trying to recover nearly $10.9 million. In one case, a former southern Indiana school superintendent owes more than $615,000.
The proposed legislation also will require government employees to purchase bonds and insurance policies that can be used to recover missing funds.
