Unions, Retirees File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Halt Unlawful DOGE Access to Social Security Data as New Fact

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/unions-retirees-file-motion-for-preliminary-injunction-to-halt-unlawful-doge-access-to-social-security-data-as-new-facts-emerge


For Immediate Release
Friday, April 04, 2025
Contact: Nick Voutsinos
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Unions, Retirees File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Halt Unlawful DOGE Access to Social Security Data as New Facts Emerge

Filing Seeks to Restore Control Over SSA’s Data Systems and Suspend DOGE’s Unlawful Activity Until the Lawsuit is Resolved

Baltimore, MD — Today, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA) filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in federal court to stop the ongoing, unlawful access to sensitive personal data by Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) at the Social Security Administration (SSA). DOGE’s intrusion has already put millions at risk of identity theft, financial fraud, and doxxing.

The filing follows a lawsuit brought by Democracy Forward on behalf of the organizations and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) filed last month. On March 20, a federal court ordered, for the first time since Trump took office, that DOGE return or destroy all private Social Security data it accessed, recognizing that stopping DOGE’s future access to the data was not enough to protect Americans.

Since then, new facts have further exposed the breadth and urgency of the harm to retirees, teachers, and everyday Americans who rely on the SSA and have entrusted it with highly sensitive personal and financial information.

The plaintiffs seek relief while the case develops to block DOGE personnel’s access to SSA systems, which include bank account numbers, health records, immigration status, and wage histories of tens of millions of Americans. The preliminary injunction application argues that the access violates the Privacy Act, Social Security Act, and Internal Revenue Code, and Administrative Procedure Act and that DOGE is acting far beyond the legal authority of any executive agency.

FULL story at link above.

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. I'd like to see retirees be told they don't have standing.

I know one of the judges orders that Dodgy had to provide real time updates on their activities had a temporary injunction placed on it. I wonder what the status of that is.

OF the people
BY the people
FOR the people

Is supposed to mean something. Not of/by/for the corporations, billionaires, oligarchs, grifters, sadist, or sociopaths.