Unions’, Employees’ Privacy Act, APA Suit Over DOGE’s OPM Access To Proceed

( April 8, 2025, 10:59 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Claims brought against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by two labor unions and three individual federal employees over the agency’s grant of access to private personnel records to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) largely survived a motion to dismiss, with a New York federal judge finding that the plaintiffs sufficiently pleaded their claims under the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)....