| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | AFI |
| Publication date | 2015-04-23 (11.3 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | SAF/GC |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
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This instruction establishes guidance and procedures to Air Force officials for cooperation and interaction with the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC). It does not establish an independent basis for any person or organization to assert a right, benefit, or privilege.
This document has been substantially revised and must be completely reviewed. Major changes include conforming the policies and procedures to the WPEA, as well as dividing the publication into separate chapters: Chapter 1 presents an overview of OSC’s statutory responsibilities; Chapter 2 clarifies and expounds on the roles and responsibilities of Air Force organ izations, military members and civilian employees involved in cooperating with OSC; Chapter 3 provides greater detail and clarity into the procedures for whistleblower disclosure cases where OSC refers whistleblower allegations to the Air Force for investigation; Chapter 4 provides procedures for cooperating with OSC in its investigations into prohibited personnel actions, including expanded sections on the point of contact’s (POC) responsibilities, the process for requesting and approving legal representa tion, corrective and disciplinary actions as well as responsibilities for monitoring and settling OSC cases within the Air Force; Chapter 5 addresses the procedures to be used for OSC investigations into alleged violations of Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), 38 U.S.C. § 4301 et seq., and Hatch Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 7321-26, as amended by the Hatch Act Modernization Act of 2012, Public Law 112 –230 (2012). The Glossary has been expanded to include additional terms consistent with recent statutory changes and case precedent. Sample memorandum language has been provided for POC instructions, requests for legal representation, approval of requests for legal representation, appointment of counsel and a template response to OSC requ ests for information
Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.
| Functional community | Publications | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections & Special Management | 1 | AFI 90-301 AFRC Sup |
1 publication in 1 other community depend on this one, which Law owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.
If AFI 51-1102 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.