Government Ordered To Scrub Federal Workers’ COVID Vaccine Status In Legal Settlement

Government agencies will soon begin scrubbing federal employees’ COVID-19 vaccination records from their personnel files after a four-year-long legal battle over former President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Feds For Freedom announced Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that requires the Office of Personnel Management to direct federal agencies to expunge personnel records related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, including vaccine status, non-compliance with the mandate, or exemption requests. The requirement must be issued in the next 60 days. Agencies will also be barred from considering COVID-19 vaccine status in hiring, firing and promotion decisions.

“The biggest thing for our members is that they are going to have their records scrubbed,” Feds For Freedom Executive Director Stephanie Weidle told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Our victory is a long-overdue confirmation of what we have asserted all along: COVID mandates were unconstitutional, immoral, and un-American,” Feds For Freedom President Marcus Thornton said in a statement.

The settlement represents “years of volunteer work and grassroots financial support,” said Feds For Freedom Co-Founder Jim Erdman.

The battle began in December 2021 when Feds For Freedom — then known as Feds for Medical Freedom, a group founded earlier that fall with approximately 9,000 federal employees — filed suit in Texas challenging the mandate, securing a nationwide injunction by January 2022 that paused the mandate’s enforcement. Biden formally revoked the mandate in May 2023.