Judge Blocks DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Data on Federal Education Employees
The temporary restraining order safeguards personal information, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status, and disability status.
DOGE has been blocked by a federal district court temporarily from pulling sensitive personal information from the U.S. Department of Education.
The injunction by a federal judge in Maryland on Monday in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Teachers and other labor unions after finding that the DOE and the Office of Personnel Management had likely violated the Privacy Act by giving the personal information of teachers and other educational staffers to DOGE without their consent. The judge said the unions had met the burden for “the extraordinary relief they seek.”
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