Employee Race Data Wiped From Federal Human Resources Website

Race information disappeared from the federal government’s HR website that displays statistics for the public on about 2.3 million federal employees.

The Office of Personnel Management deleted the section of its FedScope website that showed data about federal employees’ race. The site now displays an error message.

For decades, OPM has provided Congress, federal agencies, and academics with personnel data that helped shape policies, funding, and staffing decisions. Without the race information, those groups will not be able to easily track how President Donald Trump’s workforce cuts affect minority race groups, including Black and Asian employees, academics said.

Federal agencies began deleting data from their websites shortly after Trump took office and directed them to eliminate “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” programs.

Pages tracking flu cases and HIV statistics across the US vanished in the first days of the administration. A federal judge later ordered the administration to restore health data online.

A spokeswoman for Acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

The future of OPM’s recordkeeping on federal employees is in doubt. Nearly all the half-dozen analysts and statisticians who compiled HR data for 2.3 million federal employees have been laid off or took resignation incentives to leave, Bloomberg Law previously reported.