States sue USDA over efforts to gather food stamp data on tens of millions of people
Updated July 28, 20259:26 PM ET
"SNAP recipients provided this information to get help feeding their families not to be entered into a government surveillance database or be used as targets in the president's inhumane immigration agenda," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a Monday press conference announcing the lawsuit.
The states' lawsuit is the second one to challenge the USDA's data collection plan. A group of SNAP recipients, an anti-hunger group and a privacy organization sued weeks after USDA announced the plan in May. That suit is still proceeding. The federal judge in that case declined the plaintiffs' request to intervene last week to postpone the agency's data collection deadline.
More than 40 million people receive SNAP benefits across the country each month.
States collect detailed information from applicants to determine if they qualify for food assistance. That data has always stayed with the states until this request.
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