INFORMATION ACCURACY

U.S. Sues Illinois for Passing Law Demanding Accuracy in Employment Eligibility System
The federal government has file suited (pdf) in a federal district court seeking to block a New Illinois law, claiming it preempts federal law. However, the state law does not ban outright employer use of the voluntary employment eligibility verification system called E-Verify. Instead the Illinois law prohibits employers from using the system until the federal databases it uses can be certified as 99 percent accurate. Federal reviews have deened (pdf) the system "seriously flawed in content and accuracy"; for example, the Social Security Administration database is estimated (pdf) to include 18 million incorrect records. See EPIC's SSN page and Spotlight on Surveilance on E-Verify. (Sept. 25)