Overview

• The National Personnel Records Center acknowledged it improperly sent Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s comprehensive military file, including her Social Security number and date of birth, and issued an apology while alerting the inspector general and launching an internal review.
• NPRC officials said a technician failed to follow FOIA procedures and should not have released the entire record, and the agency offered Sherrill credit monitoring and asked that the file not be disseminated.
• Former GOP congressional candidate Nicholas De Gregorio filed the FOIA request and provided the records to Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign; he says the campaign did not hire or encourage him to obtain the file.
• Sherrill’s campaign sent cease-and-desist letters and is exploring legal action after the disclosure of sensitive data, calling the episode an illegal weaponization of government records.
• The documents and reporting show Sherrill did not walk at the Naval Academy’s 1994 commencement after declining to report cheating classmates, and Democrats led by Hakeem Jeffries are demanding a criminal investigation as new polling shows the race tied.