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Attorney General Jones Secures Preliminary Injunction Over Trump Administration’s Unlawful Demand of CDL Drivers’ Personal Information
RICHMOND, Va. – Attorney General Jay Jones and a coalition of 24 attorneys general announced a U.S. District Court judge granted a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration from demanding the production of a database of state-owned records containing the sensitive personal information of 17 million drivers and from terminating more than $10 million in federal funding to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) if it refuses to produce the database.
“As we battle this latest attempt at federal overreach into the privacy of Virginians in court, we are glad the court agreed that the personal information of CDL licensees will stay out of Donald Trump’s hands. Our aggressive federal government is attempting to seize power from the states and keep tabs on Americans, while they continue to threaten to withhold resources from Virginians. Virginia isn’t going to give in,” said Attorney General Jones. “The Commonwealth looks forward to defending the long‑standing privacy and governance protections around state-owned driver information in court.”
In August, Attorney General Jones and the coalition filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), which is an administration of the DOT, and AAMVA, as well as an additional related lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The lawsuits claim the DOT, FMCSA and DHS are violating multiple federal privacy laws by secretly setting up their own database with records extorted from AAMVA, with no guardrails on the use or sharing of drivers’ Social Security numbers and other personal information, and no notice to the public.
Just a week after Attorney General Jones and the attorneys general filed the lawsuits, the court issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the administration from obtaining this sensitive information for two weeks. Today’s preliminary injunction blocks the demand as Attorney General Jones and the attorneys general continue to litigate the ongoing case.
Attorney General Jones filed of these lawsuits with attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin, as well as the states of Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
Published on: September 18, 2026
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