Federal agency making list on ‘personal religious information’ | Eastern NC Now

A small federal administrative agency will start to collect the “personal religious information” of its own employees who object to taking coronavirus vaccines for religious reasons.

The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Colombia, which assists judicial officers in the D.C. court system, announced on Tuesday its “intent to create the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia Privacy Act system of records, the ‘Employee Religious Exception Request Information System.'”

The agency said:

This system of records maintains personal religious information collected in response to religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement in the context of a public health emergency or similar health and safety incident, such as a pandemic, epidemic, natural disaster or national or regional emergency; and/or any other lawful collection of employee information or data that is necessary to ensure a safe and healthy environment for individuals who are occupying PSA facilities, attending PSA-sponsored events, or otherwise engaged in official business on behalf of the Agency. The system of records will assist the Agency in the collection, storing, dissemination, and disposal of employee religious exemption request information collected and maintained by the Agency, as referenced above.

The Daily Signal speculated that the move could “serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine.”

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