Author Archives: Frank Rizzo

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the DoD is modifying and reissuing a current System of Records Notice (SORN) titled, "Defense Manpower Data Center Data Base," DMDC 01. The SORN is being retitled "Uniformed Services Human Resources Information System," to reflect the updated name of the underlying database. The system is designed to collect and maintain records that support a single central facility within the DoD. Its primary functions include assessing manpower trends, supporting personnel and readiness operations, conducting longitudinal statistical analyses, identifying current and former DoD civilians and Armed Forces personnel for the purpose of detecting fraud and abuse of pay and benefits programs, and registering eligible individuals and their authorized dependents for medical examinations, treatment, or other qualified benefits. The system also facilitates the collection of debts owed to the United States Government and to state and local governments. As part of this update, two routine uses are being revised to reflect changes in computer matching activities. Specifically, the proposed revisions expand the eligible population for data sharing with the Department of Education (DoE) to support a new computer matching program, and remove routine uses associated with the Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS), as the DoD no longer participates in that program. Additional modifications throughout the SORN improve clarity and ensure the information reflects current operational practices.

Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Yemen for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Yemen is set to expire on March 3, 2026. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Yemen no longer continues to meet the conditions for designation for Temporary Protected Status. The Secretary, therefore, is terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation of Yemen as required by statute. This termination is effective May 4, 2026. After May 4, 2026, nationals of Yemen (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Yemen) who have been granted Temporary Protected Status under Yemen's designation will no longer have Temporary Protected Status.

A D.C. federal judge paused a Trump administration policy requiring lawmakers to give a seven-day advance notice for oversight visits to immigration detention centers, ruling Monday the lawmakers have shown irreparable injury absent relief given the need for "real-time, on-the-ground information" about facility conditions and detainees' statuses. 

A California federal jury convicted two women of felony stalking for following an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer home while live-streaming on social media, but cleared them of an additional charge and fully acquitted a third woman who claimed the officer hit her with his vehicle.

A group of refugees asked a Massachusetts federal court to stop the Trump administration's policy allowing immigration authorities to detain an estimated 100,000 refugees across the U.S. who haven't secured green cards, saying it violates their civil liberties.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have urged a Washington federal court to dismiss two suits challenging alleged plans to build an immigrant detention facility in Newport, Oregon, arguing that it has no such plans.

A New York federal court’s recent U.S. v. Heppner decision, holding that a defendant’s use of Claude was not privileged, only addressed one narrow artificial intelligence system, but lawyers must recognize that the spectrum of AI tools raises different confidentiality and privilege questions, says Heidi Nadel at HP.

A Washington federal judge has ordered briefing to resume for a previously stayed case in which the University of Washington alleges the federal government failed to hand over public records about immigration arrests and detentions.