Judge restricts DOGE access to federal databases, finding 'breach of law and trust'
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Judge limits DOGE's access to OPM records containing personal information, while the Supreme Court separately allows the department access to Social Security systems.
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U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York granted the plaintiffs’ April 25 motion for a preliminary injunction Monday, but said the scope of the injunction would be addressed in a separate order.
"Following President Trump’s inauguration, OPM granted broad access to many of those systems to a group of individuals associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (‘DOGE’), even though no credible need for this access had been demonstrated. In doing so, OPM violated the law and bypassed its established cybersecurity practices," Cote wrote in a 99-page opinion on Monday.
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