Federal employees tracked in new vaccination databases

As millions of vaccines go in arms across the county, federal employees who refuse citing a religious exemption are quietly being entered into an online database.

Fox News looked through the records, and the Departments of Justice, Interior, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation are just a few agencies taking part in the collection.

“It’s not surprising that the government is keeping a record of religious exemptions. The government does have to track its workforce,” George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley said.

For example, the Department of Transportation database “includes requests for a medical or religious accommodation to decline the Covid-19 vaccination.”

“Religious exemptions are based on the most personal and profound parts of people’s lives. They invoke these exemptions because they feel they cannot take this vaccine,” Turley added.

Religious rights groups are calling foul about the databases.

“This is concerning because of the type of data that’s being gathered,” Ryan Bangert with Alliance Defending Freedom told Fox News. – READ MORE