by Meghan Maury
Form of the Week: Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations. In this notice, DOJ is seeking continued approval for its Civil Rights Reporting Portal, the public online form people use to report potential civil rights violations to the Civil Rights Division. The notice does not disclose the changes in detail, but the supplemental materials show that DOJ is adding "gun ownership" as a discrimination type, removing “gender identity” as a selectable personal characteristic, and changing “gender” references to “sex” in the hate-crime portions of the portal, even though federal hate-crimes law still expressly covers crimes motivated by actual or perceived gender identity.
Comments due August 21.
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Immigration
Change of Address/Contact Information Form. DOJ is revising the immigration court change-of-address form to remove the “in care of” fields that allowed people in immigration proceedings to have notices sent through another person. DOJ describes the change as a way to prevent “fraud” and protect personal information, but it could also make it harder for people with unstable housing, unreliable mail, or safety concerns to reliably receive immigration court notices.
Comments due July 23.
Health
Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures. The PREP Program supports evidence-based programs to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. This form collects performance measures data from PREP grant recipients, program providers, and participants. HHS is making various changes to simplify and clarify the performance measures, including noting particular questions in the participant surveys that youth have difficulty understanding and responding to.
Comments due July 20.
Data Sharing
Health Benefits Claims and Cost Records. OPM is modifying its health claims data system for the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs to include Postal Service records, add more detailed claims and payment fields, and authorize additional routine data-sharing for health benefits administration, oversight, fraud prevention, payment integrity, litigation, and related purposes. The system includes diagnosis, procedure, drug, provider, and date-of-service information, so the expanded uses and sharing authorities could raise privacy concerns for people who receive sensitive forms of care through federal or postal employee health plans.
Comments due July 23.Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data. HHS is updating the records system for TANF data to make clearer that ACF can use information from TANF agencies, other HHS records, and other federal or state agencies — including DHS and SSA — for “program integrity” reviews, audits, monitoring, and citizenship or immigration-status verification. The change also adds a new routine use allowing TANF records to be shared with agencies or entities helping ACF conduct those reviews, which could raise privacy and chilling-effect concerns for low-income families, especially households with immigrant members.
Comments due July 23.
Criminal Justice
Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA). The CSLLEA collects national data on law enforcement agencies’ staffing, budgets, functions, demographics, and school-based personnel. BJS is revising the CSLLEA to include private campus law enforcement agencies and ask whether agencies perform three additional functions: executing search warrants, operating real-time crime centers, and using drones.
Comments due July 22.2026 Mandatory Data Collection for Incarcerated People's Communications Services. FCC is proposing to revise their mandatory data collection from prison and jail communications providers, which the agency will use to set permanent rate caps for phone and video calls by incarcerated people. The proposal would streamline earlier reporting. Notably, it makes changes to how it treats provider “safety and security” costs, facility payments, payment-processing costs, and other expenses. Historically, including more of those costs in rate-setting ultimately makes communication more expensive for incarcerated people and their families.
Comments due August 3.
Transportation
Shaping the Future of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. BTS is seeking public input on how to modernize its data products, fill gaps in national transportation data, and make its tools easier to use, including through more timely indicators, new data sources, more geographic or demographic detail, APIs, and machine-readable formats.
Comments due July 31.
Technology
GSAR: Acquisition of Information and Communication Technology. GSA is proposing a new contract clause for federal purchases of large language model AI systems, focused on safeguarding government data, clarifying data ownership, requiring privacy and security controls, and flowing those requirements down to AI developers, operators, integrators, and service providers. Of note, the clause would require contractors to follow “unbiased AI principles,” including truthfulness, neutrality, and avoiding “partisan or ideological judgments."
Comments due August 3.
Federal Funding
SAM Quarterly Certification of Compliance With Executive Order 14400, Urgent National Action To Save College Sports. In this notice, GSA is proposing a new SAM.gov reporting requirement for colleges and universities with at least $20 million in annual intercollegiate athletics revenue to certify quarterly that they are complying with Executive Order 14400. The certification is meant to help federal contracting and grantmaking agencies assess compliance with the EO’s rules on college athletics, including eligibility, transfers, revenue sharing, NIL/pay-for-play arrangements, and use of federal funds for athletics-related payments.
Comments due August 17.