The Daily Signal, the news organization of The Heritage Foundation, recently broke news, revealing that federal agencies planned to make lists of federal employees seeking COVID-19 vaccine exemptions.  

The article, written by Heritage experts Sarah Parshall Perry and GianCarlo Canaparo, received over 100,000 page views and was mentioned by multiple news outlets.  
 
According to a follow-up article by Perry and Canaparo, at least 19 “agencies plan to collect religious affiliation, the reasons and support given for religious accommodation requests, names, contact information, date of birth, aliases, home address, contact information, and other identifying information.”  
 
They speculated that the move could “serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine.” 
 
Their reporting was covered by CBN, The Daily Wire, The Washington Times, Newsmax, The Epoch Times, The Western Journal, The Federalist, and more.  
 

Fox News also ran a segment on “America’s Newsroom” using information from Perry and Canaparo’s reporting.  

Perry and Canaparo are legal fellows for the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Perry’s work centers on civil rights and the proper role of the courts while Canaparo researches, writes, speaks, and testifies on regulatory policy, criminal justice policy, the federal courts, and constitutional law.