Lynchburg Works – LYH City Worker Whistleblower Site

Welcome to Lynchburg Works,

We are a platform to enable public employees to blow the whistle on corruption, waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the City of Lynchburg. We will work to shield your identity while still exposing problems that affect Lynchburg taxpayers and the well-being of the community. Once we have independently verified all claims we will publish all discovered facts and documents about the issue at hand.

We particularly are interested in hearing from:

Public School Employees & Teachers
Public Safety Employees
Public Works Employees
City Administration
Financial Services

IMPORTANT:
We will independently verify all claims made through this platform before publishing. Where ever possible please provide a means in which to verify any/all claims such as a specific FOIA request.

Please use the form below to file a claim with Lynchburg Works.

We HIGHLY RECOMMEND you access this website and submit the form from your personal device and on your own personal wifi or cellular network. While we will work to shield your identity, Lynchburg Works is NOT RESPONSIBLE for any consequences you incur as a result of sending us this whistleblower claim.

How We Protect You:

First and foremost we do not require your name, email, or other personally identifiable information. In fact, we would rather not have it. If we don’t know who you are, we can’t answer when we are asked.
Our website is encrypted with industry-standard 256 bit SSL encryption. This protects your data as it is transferred through the cloud so that it can not be intercepted.
We do not keep visitor logs on our website. While we do have an “anomalized analytics tool” (visitor counter) we do NOT use tracking cookies or log IPs that could be used to reverse engineer who you are.
You are in control of what we share.
We ask that you do NOT share personally privileged information with us that would violate any laws. This includes information that would fall under FERPA and HIPAA regulations. WE WILL NOT publish this type of content and if it is received we will delete it off our servers.
We verify all documents independently. This means that while we request you provide “source documents” for us to start an investigation. We will not use/publish these. Instead, we will write our own FOIA request, or collect evidence through other legal means. This layer of protection both allows us to verify your claim but also allows us to be the source of any material published.

What wrongdoing occurred?(Required)

Who did the wrongdoing?

Name/Title/Position

Where did the wrongdoing happen?

Approximately what date did the last instance of the wrongdoing occur?

How long has the wrongdoing been occuring?

What enabled this to happen (How)?

What evidence do you have?

Please describe how an investigator could locate supporting documentation or attach a copy of evidence that you have already in your possession. You should NOT ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN evidence for which you do not have a right of access, as such, whistleblowers are “reporting parties” not investigators

Upload Files

Please upload any files that you have to support your claims. You should NOT ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN evidence for which you do not have a right of access, as such, whistleblowers are “reporting parties” not investigators. (Supported Formats: jpg, gif, png, pdf, doc, docx, xlsx, csv)

Drop files here or

Accepted file types: jpg, gif, png, pdf, doc, docx, xlsx, csv, Max. file size: 8 MB, Max. files: 5.

FOIA Help(Required)

Please provide us helpful information in which to obtain the files legally. This includes FOIA. For example. If the file contains a specific / unique keyword or phrase what is that keyword? If the file is a communication who was that communication from/to and what type of communication was it (email, instant message, memo, text message). What date was the document distributed?

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Our Process

IMPORTANT:
We will independently verify all claims made through this platform before publishing. Where ever possible please provide a means in which to verify any/all claims such as a specific FOIA request.

File a Claim With Lynchburg Works

Claim Form

Are You accessing This website on a City/School owned Device or Network?

Our Process

IMPORTANT: We will independently verify all claims made through this platform before publishing. Where ever possible please provide a means in which to verify any/all claims such as a specific FOIA request.

File a Claim With Lynchburg Works

Claim Form

Are You accessing This website on a City/School owned Device or Network?

IMPORTANT:
We will independently verify all claims made through this platform before publishing. Where ever possible please provide a means in which to verify any/all claims such as a specific FOIA request.