{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-9-173","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 25-9-173","heading":"Prohibition against dismissing or adversely affecting compensation or employment status of public employee for providing information to investigative body; reprisals and retaliatory actions; conditions for recovery of damages and other remedies.","body":"(1) No agency shall dismiss or otherwise adversely affect the compensation or employment status of any public employee because the public employee testified or provided information to a state investigative body whether or not the testimony or information is provided under oath.\n(2) Any person who is a whistleblower, as defined in Section 25-9-171, and who as a result of being a whistleblower has been subjected to workplace reprisal or retaliatory action, is entitled to the remedies provided under Section 25-9-175. For the purpose of this section, “reprisal or retaliatory action” means, but is not limited to:\n(a) Unwarranted and unsubstantiated letters of reprimand or unsatisfactory performance evaluations;\n(b) Demotion;\n(c) Reduction in pay;\n(d) Denial of promotion;\n(e) Suspension;\n(f) Dismissal; and\n(g) Denial of employment.\n(3) An employee who has filed a valid whistleblower complaint may not recover the damages and other remedies provided under Section 25-9-175 unless the dismissal or adverse action taken against him was the direct result of providing information to a state investigative body.\n(4) Nothing in this section prohibits a governmental entity from making any decision exercising its authority to terminate, suspend or discipline an employee who engages in workplace reprisal or retaliatory action against a whistleblower.\n(5) A governmental entity is not precluded from taking any action in accordance with established personnel policies against an employee who knowingly and intentionally provides false information to a state investigative body.","path":["Title 25. Public Officers and Employees; Public Records","Chapter 9. Statewide Personnel System","Protection of Public Employee From Reprisal for Giving Information to Investigative Body or Agency"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.25.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:08Z","sha256":"67763e732e4b23a2361901bb5c9f67585a9a4e825427e7351132327790aa8d27","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-9-172","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-9-175","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}