Just Security: States Can Fight Federal Overreach by Protecting State Data
Over at Just Security, Steven J. Kochevar (U-Chicago) has an interesting piece: States Can Fight Federal Overreach by Protecting State Data.
Kochevar starts by talking about all of the state data that the Second Trump Administration has tried to get its hands on: a database of Commercial Drivers Licenses, state Medicaid data, and state data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps). "Typically, the administration has tried to use this state data for immigration law enforcement[,]" he writes.
What the administration’s efforts have made clear is that state data is powerful. And that means states must be vigilant about when and on what terms they let the federal government use their data. ...
States can do this in three ways: keep track of their data better; think about when they don’t actually need to give their data to the federal government; and throw their weight around to put rules on how the federal government uses their data — and to enforce the legal constraints that already exist.
