Whistleblower Rebekah Jones wins dismissal at a price

On the balance of her past actions it seems likely to me that she did take access and take data from those systems when she wasn't supposed to. Perhaps it seemed innocent enough to her at the time as well. But again, really unsavvy, not necessary for whistleblowing, not really helpful to anyone. Hell, she could have taken the data, written it to a usb drive and buried it somewhere for future reference and nobody would have been the wiser (if it was her). Instead it was used to send a message to health workers.

She basically put herself in front of the law to stamp her foot and shout she's right. Maybe she is right, but she could have shouted via other avenues. Instead she has given more fodder to those she's disagreeing with.

Record is when you are convicted, while charges are simply that someone somewhere claimed something, but a jury of peers found said claim not certain beyond a reasonable doubt.