A federal judge this week issued an order restricting the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal databases at the Office of Personnel Management, which she found “violated the law and bypassed its established cybersecurity practices” when granting DOGE access to its IT systems.

U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote, a Clinton appointee, granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by the American Federation of Government Employees and unions that prevents DOGE from accessing the databases that house records on federal employees. Cote also noted that the scope of the injunction will be specified in a later order.

“Following President Trump’s inauguration, OPM granted broad access to many of those systems to a group of individuals associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), even though no credible need for this access had been demonstrated. In doing so, OPM violated the law and bypassed its established cybersecurity practices,” Cote wrote in her opinion, which was issued Monday.

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