2. Write or email Mr. Robert Kittel demanding support for The Jamie Leight Act of 2008.
Click here to read Medea Benjamin's letter to Mr. Kittel and
Click here to send your own letter using our sample email
Email: robert.kittel@us.army.mil, Suspension and Debarment Official (SDO), U.S. Army Legal Services Agency
3. Get educated on “The Jamie Leigh Act of 2008”
When speaking to the victims that have come through The Jamie Leigh Foundation it has become evident that each woman, including Jamie Leigh, would have reconsidered employment or became extra vigilant to victimization, if it was a requirement of the contractor to disclose statistical data in annual reports of the violations and criminal acts committed on each housing and working locations in country to employees. It is necessary for contractors to be able to make informed decisions regarding their safety. We believe it should be known to all employees or individuals applying to become future employees of government contractors that these crimes are happening. We want to ensure that future wives, mothers, and daughters who work for government contractors to be aware of any criminal acts that occur on the housing grounds or workplace so they can make educated decisions on whether or not to continue employment or peruse employment with these contractors who are contracted to work where a Armed Forces are conducting a contingency operation.
Contract companies need to be held accountable by demanding that they also report to the employee and government how they have handled these violations, what measures they have taken to investigate these matters, findings of all internal investigations, and what type of security is in place to prevent future violations from happening. We believe that crime awareness depends on crime reporting. If contract companies are forced to show these reports to individuals seeking employment, or those who are already employed, it will deter injustices from happening by forcing them to have more adequate security measures in place.
In 1990 Congress passed the Jean Cleary Act, also known as known as the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. The act requires colleges and universities that receive federal funds for financial aid to provide full disclosure to students of all criminal activity that happens on or around campus property.
Such important disclosure, especially when it involves personal safety, was unfortunately not provided to KBR/Halliburton employees. Government contractors and subcontractors receive federal monies from the Pentagon. We are demanding that government contractors comply with the same laws regulating disclosure of criminal activity as our colleges and universities.
The proposed Jamie Leigh Act of 2008:
An Act
To require contractors to disclose to employees and government agencies a report in a timely fashion of criminal violations between employees and the violations between employees and insurgents in each work and housing location. This is to include criminal violations that were either reported, investigated, turned over to government investigative agencies, subjected to internal investigations, and internal Dispute Resolution Reports regarding criminal activity.
The Jamie Leigh Act of 2008 requires United States Corporations that are under a contract or subcontract awarded by any department agency of the Unites States, where work under such contract is carried out in an area, or in close proximity to an area (as designed by the Department of Defense), where the Armed Forces is conducting a contingency operation to oblige this Jamie Leigh Act to disclose to employees and government agencies including Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and the Director of National Intelligence shall each submit to Congress a report that contains the information, in timely fashion, annual reports of the violations committed but not limited to criminal violations between employees and criminal violations between employees and insurgents on each work and housing location.
In compliance with the Jamie Leigh Act the United States contractor has to show how they handle reports, investigations, and how crime and emergency situations are handled on housing and work location. It should also include data that shows how many of these violations are reported to the State Department, FBI, internal security coordinators, and investigational agencies. This entire report should be disclosed to employees or those who have applied to become future employees. This report should be included in employee handbooks and updated annually.
Sign Our Petition Below!
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Number
Date
Name
Location
Your Comments
3691
June 20, 2011
Jennifer Sines
Lexington, SC, US
3690
May 05, 2010
Ruth Tonkin
Atascadero, CA, US
My zipcode is 93422
Is there a petiion already in progress to ban the practice of recruiting by the military on high school campuses and the practice of allowing 17 year olds to sign a contract of enlistment in which there is no legal recourse to change? Thank you, Ruth Tonkin
3689
March 13, 2010
Jonathon Singleton
New York, NY, US
3688
December 27, 2009
ROBIN WITT
LA, CA, United States
do the right thing now!
3687
March 07, 2010
Corla Coles
Redlands, CA, US
3686
November 23, 2009
deborah martin
houston, TX, US
president bush dishonored our armed services and our county by taking us to an unjustified war that has bankrupted our financial capabilities to sustain america. our military is the finest in the world, deserved better, and their pledge to protect our nation was cruelly taken advantage of for greed, power, and profit by the bush administration. now our military has been weakened, forced to recruit in prisons, jails and accepting unqualified people to continue these wars. america was duped, our soldiers need to come home, and the billion dollar a day war machine money needs to be redirected to domestic programs slashed by the bush administration. starting with veteran services spending, healthcare, education, raising the living wage and social security checks for the elderly an disabled. lawmakers must find the end game to this war created in the minds of madmen like bush, cheney and rove! president obama must honor his campaign promises and do the right thing! america is the greatest country in the world, time for its citizens and leaders to act accordingly!
3685
August 11, 2009
Shea de Hinde
So San Fran, CA, US
3684
July 26, 2009
Toby Blome
El Cerrito, CA, US
3683
June 28, 2009
Mary Brod
de soto, MO, US
It disgusts me that society in a so called free country would allow these atrocities to continue, even in a foreign land. Knowing full well what was happening over there these people just dismissed the crimes that were being committed against their own employees, just set it aside like it was garbage, and went back to business as usual. How dare they violate our sisters, mothers, and daughters this way! Furthermore, it seems that if this is how their employees conduct themselves while under supervision then what does that say about the company who should be responsible for them? Take responsibility for your workers actions. Take further action to prevent these and all crimes from happening again. Just do something productive and for your workers' rights!!!
3682
June 06, 2009
Mary Raffaele
Portland , OR, US
Sexual assault and the eventual cover up of said sexual assault is deplorable.
3681
May 22, 2009
Richard Norman Talley
Silver Spring, MD, US
3680
May 13, 2009
Stephen Oviatt
Sun Valley, NV, US
3679
May 05, 2009
Anonymous
Cypress, CA, US
3678
April 12, 2009
Anonymous
Hampton, VA, US
3677
April 09, 2009
Amalie McCarthy
Rolla, MO, US
3676
February 25, 2009
katie yow
Greensboro, NC, US
3675
February 15, 2009
Melanie Doherty
Manlius, NY, US
3674
February 09, 2009
steve warchal
norton, MA, US
3673
January 23, 2009
Mia V
San Antonio, TX, US
3672
January 22, 2009
Diana Bohn
Berkeley, CA, US
3671
January 06, 2009
Anonymous
Slater, SC, US
Let us continue working to reverse a culture of exploitation. In doing so, we will shrink the unhealthy roots that allow the pervasiveness of sexual violence. There is something that seems to allow it to remain invisible and denied, or seen as insignificant. The only way for change to occur is for us to rise up peacefully, in solidarity, and in strength.
3670
January 04, 2009
Barbara Tomlinson
Seattle, WA, US
3669
January 03, 2009
Tasha Mathis
Midland, TX, US
I cannot belive its this hard to get something obvioulsy wrong changed!
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