Section 21-1-503 - Employer not to penalize employee's political activity

(a) A public employee shall not be prohibited from communicating with an elected public official concerning a matter related to the public employee's job, except for a matter exempted under § 25-19-105.(b) A public employee shall not be prohibited from exercising a right or privilege under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.(c)(1) It shall be unlawful for any public employer to discipline, to threaten to discipline, to reprimand either orally or in writing, to place any notation in a public employee's personnel file disciplining or reprimanding the public employee, or to otherwise discriminate against a public employee because the public employee exercised the right to communicate with an elected public official or exercised a right or privilege under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., as granted under this subchapter.(2) A public employer shall not be prohibited from disciplining a public employee who has intentionally made an untrue allegation to an elected public official concerning a matter related to the public employee's job.(d) Any person willfully violating a provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a Class A

untrue allegation to an elected public official concerning a matter related to the public employee's job.(d) Any person willfully violating a provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.Amended by Act 2015, No. 102,§ 1, eff. 7/22/2015.Acts 1999, No. 658, § 3; 2005, No. 1962, § 93; 2009, No. 771, § 1.