CRCL employees file a whistleblower disclosure describing roughly 550 abandoned open investigations

The disclosure, titled in part as concerning "Violations of Laws, Rules and Regulations, Gross Mismanagement, Gross Waste of Funds, Abuse of Authority, and Danger to Public Health and Safety in the Dissolution of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties," reported that CRCL employees had been forced to abandon approximately 550 open complaint investigations plus hundreds of additional complaints pending review, and that CRCL could no longer perform statutory functions including investigating disability discrimination, protecting survivors of human trafficking and other crimes, oversight of facial-recognition use, TSA and CBP traveler-screening audits, and protecting DHS employees from workplace discrimination.