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Sept. 29, 2026

DOGE police report letters for Connecticut

Connecticut residents can copy letters asking police and the state's attorney to investigate DOGE’s handling of Social Security data under Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-129a and 53a-129d and Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-251(b).

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    Connecticut residents can copy letters asking police and the state's attorney to investigate DOGE’s handling of Social Security data under Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-129a and 53a-129d and Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-251(b).

    Letters for Connecticut

    These letters are activist material published by The Existentialist Republic. They are not legal advice, and The Existentialist Republic does not act as legal counsel for anyone who files. Each reader decides whether and when to file.

    Connecticut prosecutes crimes through the Division of Criminal Justice, which is "in charge of the investigation and prosecution of all criminal matters in the Superior Court" (Conn. Gen. Stat. 51-276); a state's attorney appointed by the Criminal Justice Commission leads each judicial district. Connecticut's attorney general has civil jurisdiction only. Criminal prosecution belongs to the Division of Criminal Justice under the Chief State's Attorney (Conn. Gen. Stat. 51-276 and 51-278).

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    If you are a federal employee or hold a security clearance, you can leave out the police report and send the other letters. Send them from a personal email account on your own time, and sign as a private resident without a job title.

    Letter 1, optional: the police report

    To the [police department or sheriff’s office]:

    [Your opening: where you live and why this matters to you, in one to three sentences.]

    I am reporting suspected identity theft under Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-129a. The Social Security Administration holds my personal information, including in the agency’s Numident file.

    On Jan. 16, 2026, Justice Department lawyers filed a Notice of Corrections to the Record in AFSCME v. Social Security Administration, No. 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.), ECF 197. The Social Security Administration reported that the agency’s former Department of Government Efficiency team, known as DOGE, took actions “potentially outside of SSA policy and/or noncompliant with” a March 20, 2025, court order. From March 7 to March 17, 2025, team members shared data through Cloudflare, a third-party server, and the agency has not been able to determine what was shared. On March 3, 2025, a team member emailed the Department of Homeland Security an encrypted file and copied a senior adviser to the U.S. DOGE Temporary Organization and a DOGE-affiliated Labor Department employee. The agency believes the file held personal information, including names and addresses, of about 1,000 people, and the agency has been unable to open it. A team member signed a “Voter Data Agreement” with a political group seeking “to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.” On March 24, 2025, four days after the court order, a team member searched personal data in the Numident, the agency’s master file of Social Security numbers. In an Aug. 26, 2025, whistleblower disclosure, Charles Borges, then the agency’s chief data officer, said DOGE staff copied the Numident, with records on more than 300 million Americans, to a cloud environment without independent oversight. In March 2026, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General notified congressional committee leaders of a review of “the potential misuse of SSA data by a former DOGE employee.” On April 10, 2026, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction for lack of irreparable harm without ruling on whether DOGE’s access was lawful. U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander ordered discovery, including depositions, on April 14, 2026, and on June 26, 2026, refused to withdraw the order, writing that the government “may have ‘provided patently false information to the district court.’”

    The police for the town where the victim lives must accept the complaint, prepare a report, give the complainant a copy and investigate (Conn. Gen. Stat. 54-1n). Please take this report and forward it to the State's Attorney.

    [Your closing: the reply you want.]

    Respectfully,
    [Full name]
    [Street address]
    [City, state, ZIP]
    [Email or phone]

    Letter 2: the state's attorney

    Dear State's Attorney [last name]:

    [Your opening.]

    I am asking your office to open a criminal investigation into the conduct described below. The Social Security Administration holds my personal information, including in the agency’s Numident file.

    On Jan. 16, 2026, Justice Department lawyers filed a Notice of Corrections to the Record in AFSCME v. Social Security Administration, No. 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.), ECF 197. The Social Security Administration reported that the agency’s former Department of Government Efficiency team, known as DOGE, took actions “potentially outside of SSA policy and/or noncompliant with” a March 20, 2025, court order. From March 7 to March 17, 2025, team members shared data through Cloudflare, a third-party server, and the agency has not been able to determine what was shared. On March 3, 2025, a team member emailed the Department of Homeland Security an encrypted file and copied a senior adviser to the U.S. DOGE Temporary Organization and a DOGE-affiliated Labor Department employee. The agency believes the file held personal information, including names and addresses, of about 1,000 people, and the agency has been unable to open it. A team member signed a “Voter Data Agreement” with a political group seeking “to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.” On March 24, 2025, four days after the court order, a team member searched personal data in the Numident, the agency’s master file of Social Security numbers. In an Aug. 26, 2025, whistleblower disclosure, Charles Borges, then the agency’s chief data officer, said DOGE staff copied the Numident, with records on more than 300 million Americans, to a cloud environment without independent oversight. In March 2026, the agency’s Office of the Inspector General notified congressional committee leaders of a review of “the potential misuse of SSA data by a former DOGE employee.” On April 10, 2026, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction for lack of irreparable harm without ruling on whether DOGE’s access was lawful. U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander ordered discovery, including depositions, on April 14, 2026, and on June 26, 2026, refused to withdraw the order, writing that the government “may have ‘provided patently false information to the district court.’”

    As a Connecticut resident whose Social Security records are maintained by the Social Security Administration, I believe this conduct violates Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-129a and 53a-129d and Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-251(b). Identity theft covers a person who "knowingly uses personal identifying information of another person to obtain or attempt to obtain money, credit, goods, services, property or medical information without the consent of such other person" (Conn. Gen. Stat. 53a-129a), a class D felony in the third degree (53a-129d) and a class B felony when the value obtained exceeds $10,000 (53a-129b). Unauthorized access to a computer system covers a person who, "knowing that he is not authorized to do so, he accesses or causes to be accessed any computer system without authorization" (53a-251(b)), a class D felony when the damage or value exceeds $1,000 (53a-254). Connecticut treats a computer crime as committed in the state "if any act performed in furtherance of the offenses set out in section 53a-251 occurs in this state" (53a-261).

    In Colorado v. Symes, 286 U.S. 510 (1932), the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal officers “are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law.” The immunity recognized in In re Neagle, 135 U.S. 1 (1890), covers acts federal law authorizes that were necessary and proper to the officer’s duty, and the agency has said this conduct was potentially outside agency policy. The plaintiffs in the civil lawsuits seek court orders, and criminal charges require a prosecutor. The president’s pardon power applies only to “Offences against the United States” (U.S. Const. art. II, sec. 2), and in Gamble v. United States, 587 U.S. 678 (2019), the Supreme Court reaffirmed that each state prosecutes crimes under its own law as a separate sovereign. In April 2026, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minnesota charged a federal immigration officer with assault under state law.

    I am asking you to use subpoenas to learn where Connecticut residents’ data went and who used it.

    [If you filed a police report: I reported this to (agency) on (date), report number (number).]

    [Your closing: the reply you want.]

    Respectfully,
    [Full name]
    [Street address]
    [City, state, ZIP]
    [Email or phone]

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    Change log

    • Feb. 16, 2026, version 1: First set posted as a comment on the Feb. 16, 2026, article. Original
    • Sept. 29, 2026, version 2: Set rebuilt from the state’s own statutes, with every quotation checked against the official text or a published copy of the code.

    These letters are activist material published by The Existentialist Republic. They are not legal advice, and The Existentialist Republic does not act as legal counsel for anyone who files. Each reader decides whether and when to file.

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