MONTICELLO – The Sullivan County Legislature is developing a whistleblower law, crafted after Ulster County’s, as a means of protecting county workers should they come forward with information of wrongdoing at the workplace.

The Personnel Committee continued to work on the language, Thursday.

Committee Chairman David Sager said it is important legislation. “It is important that send the message forth to the people that work for us that says, “if you notice something wrong, you think there’s wrongdoing or you have been intimidated or treated wrongly, that you have the right to come forward and that you’re not going to have to worry about remuniation and you can do so in comfort’,” he said.

County Attorney Sam Yasgur wants the law to include language to inform workers that there are whistleblower protections.

Lawmakers will take up the proposed law again next week.