Top Homeland Security Ethics Officer Warns DHS Employees to Avoid Politics

The Department of Homeland Security sent an email urging employees to stay out of partisan activities after the department’s acting head was featured in the Republican National Convention this week.

In a memo emailed on Thursday morning, the department’s top ethics officer Joseph B. Maher addressed all DHS staff, saying that the Hatch Act prohibits them from “conducting any political activity while on duty,” among other restrictions. The memo said that political appointees “are prohibited from actively participating in partisan…

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