In the Notification and Federal Employee
Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act, (No FEAR Act), P.L. 107-174, Congress found that federal
agencies lacked accountability for enforcement of federal anti-discrimination and whistleblower
statutes since any monetary judgment against an agency was paid from the Judgment Fund of the
U.S. Department of Justice, rather than the agency's own operating budget. The Act addresses the
problem by requiring agencies to reimburse the Treasury for any judgment or settlement of federal
employee discrimination or whistleblower reprisal claims. In addition, individual agencies and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must post annual statistics on their websites, setting
forth the numbers of complaints filed, pending, and resolved; the amount paid out on such claims;
the number of employees disciplined for discrimination, retaliation, or harassment; and an
examination of any trends in those statistics, including a causal analysis, the practical knowledge
obtained in the process, and any planned or completed improvements made to the complaint
resolution procedures of each agency.