{"id":268668,"date":"2026-06-09T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:15:10","slug":"hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS Reorganizes Office for Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights\">HHS Reorganizes Office for Civil Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights\">https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 15:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.hunton.com\">www.hunton.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (\u201cHHS\u201d) announced a reorganization of its Office for Civil Rights (\u201cOCR\u201d), the agency responsible for enforcing health information privacy and security requirements and federal civil rights laws.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new structure, OCR will organize its work through three subject-matter divisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health Information Privacy, Data, and Cybersecurity Division<\/li>\n<li>Conscience and Religious Freedom Division<\/li>\n<li>Civil Rights Division<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to HHS, the restructuring is intended to align OCR\u2019s responsibilities with dedicated subject-matter expertise and leadership. The agency stated that complaint intake and enforcement activities will continue to be coordinated through a centralized Enforcement Division, including the review of reported breaches involving unsecured protected health information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HHS Reorganizes Office for Civil Rights https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog\/hhs-reorganizes-office-for-civil-rights Publish Date: 2026-06-09 15:56:00 Source Domain: www.hunton.com On&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hunton.com\/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog\/assets\/images-t1781035741\/206510.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268672,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268668\/revisions\/268672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}