TOPIC HUB
Oversight & Accountability
This hub gathers everything on oversight and accountability: how it’s supposed to work, where it’s weak, the lessons, and the specific problems you can act on.
Learn it
Start here to understand the whole picture.
The full picture on this topic
Learn the system: Fraud, Waste, Abuse & Oversight 101
Learn the system: Ethics & Rules, explained
Learn the system: The Auditor General
Do something
Specific problems on this subject — what each is, and what you can do about it.
The Auditor General
The Auditor General is established under the Navajo Nation Council, appointed by the Speaker, and serves at the Council’s pleasure — meaning the Council can remove the Auditor General at any time, for any reason.
Ethics & Rules
The Office of Ethics & Rules handles complaints against elected officials. §3780 allows removal of an elected official. §3767 protects whistleblowers.
Reporting & Whistleblowing
A complaint that reaches the right door with the right materials gets answered; one that wanders dies. The most important oversight skill is knowing which door to use before you file.
Connected
Oversight is where every subject ends up: when something stalls or goes wrong, who answers? These are the catches that are meant to prevent it.
The roadblocks & where they lead
Seams & accountability — how problems stall and who answers. What runs through all of it →
Root causes — funding, capacity, and unclear law underneath. The root problem →
The case that shaped this
Shirley v. Morgan (Navajo Supreme Court, 2010). When the Council dissolved the office meant to finish reforming the government, the Court ordered it restored. It is a real example of what happens when the branches collide — the Judicial branch acts as the referee. A useful case to remember whenever someone asks who settles a dispute between the Council and the President. More cases that decided things →