Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has joined a coalition of states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its demand that states provide sensitive information about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients.
SNAP is a federally funded, state-administered program that provides food assistance to low income families across the country.
“In May, USDA made an unprecedented demand that states turn over massive amounts of personal information on all SNAP applicants and recipients, including social security numbers and home addresses, dating back five years,” reads an announcement from Brown’s office.
The coalition filing the lawsuit argues the USDA’s demands “violate multiple federal privacy laws, fail to meet the public comment requirements, exceeds USDA’s statutory authority and violate the U.S. Constitution.”
Attorney General Brown joins the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Orgeon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and the governor of Kentucky.
You can read the full lawsuit HERE.
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