USPS expands its legal records system to support a new case management platform and AI tools
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This notice updates the Postal Service’s privacy records for its legal department. USPS is expanding what it collects and how it uses those records so it can move legal work into a new case management system, generate reports, manage documents, and feed data into AI-assisted tools. The change affects USPS employees, contractors, claimants, outside counsel, insurers, and other people involved in labor disputes, tort claims, IP matters, EEO cases, and other USPS legal proceedings. Companies that interact with USPS on claims or legal matters may see their information stored in a broader system and shared under the listed routine uses. The new version takes effect June 1, 2026 unless comments lead USPS to change course.
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Key Changes
- USPS revises SOR 600.100 to support a new Legal Case Management System.
- The system adds new purposes, new record categories, and a new category of covered individuals, including AI-related data use.
- The notice expands legal records, case-management records, and related personal data that can be stored, retrieved, and shared under routine uses.
Obligations
What this law requires
USPS must publish and maintain its General Privacy Act System of Records notice when it revises, changes, or adds records, and it must provide an opportunity for public comment before the revised system becomes effective.
USPS must publish and maintain the revised System of Records notice for USPS SOR 600.100 in the Federal Register when it revises the system, including the revised purposes, categories of records, categories of individuals, routine uses, storage/retrieval, retention, safeguards, access, contesting, and notification procedures.
USPS must revise and maintain the General Privacy Act System of Records (USPS SOR 600.100 General Legal Records) to cover the new Legal Case Management System, including the added purposes, record categories, individual categories, and data sources described in the notice.
USPS must accept and consider written comments on the proposed system-of-records revisions submitted by the public before the effective date, using the designated email address for the Privacy and Records Management Office.
USPS must allow individuals to submit written comments on the proposed system revision to the Privacy and Records Management Office by email at [email protected].