ATTORNEY GENERAL BONTA SLAMS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSED NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 29 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:

OAKLAND - California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a coalitionof 15 attorneys general in opposing the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) proposed government-wide Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that would silence federal civil servants. The proposed NDA would have a chilling effect on federal employees by broadly defining what constitutes protected non-public information; threatening to remove, debar, or criminally penalize civil servants for non-compliance with the NDA; threatening to remove or debar employees from federal service for not signing the NDA. In the comment letter, Attorney General Bonta and the coalition hi...