AMI 3103 Definition—“good faith”

“Good faith” means a reasonable basis in fact for the communication of the existence of [waste] [or] [a violation].

Good faith is lacking when the public employee does not have personal knowledge of a factual basis for the communication or when the public employee knew or reasonably should have known that the communication of the [waste] [or] [violation] was malicious, false, or frivolous.