Court Declines to Block Federal Government’s New “Government-Wide Email System”
From yesterday’s decision by Judge Randolph Moss (D.D.C.) in Doe v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.:
In late January 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) began to test “‘a new capability allowing it to send important communications to ALL civilian federal employees from a single email address,'” and OPM subsequently began using this new system to send messages “to most if not all individuals with Government email addresses.” That new system uses the email address [email protected] and is known as the “Government-Wide Email System” or “GWES.” This putative class action challenges the process by which OPM implemented this new system.
Plaintiffs are two federal executive branch employees and five other individuals who have “.gov” email addresses but are not executive branch employees. They contend that in the rush to adopt this new system, OPM at first entirely faile
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