California Student Group Seeks to Stop DOGE Access to Files (1)

The University of California Student Association sued the US Department of Education in federal court, seeking to stop the disclosure of sensitive personal and financial information to the Department of Government Efficiency.

The complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia says that turning the information over to DOGE employees violated the Administrative Procedure Act, the Privacy Act, the Department of Education’s Privacy Act regulations, and the Internal Revenue Code.

Unidentified DOGE staffers have gained access to the information without prior consent and “are feeding sensitive data from ED’s systems into artificial intelligence systems maintained ...