A California physician who ran as a Democrat for Congress used her sufferers’ medical information to ship out marketing campaign propaganda in the course of the 2026 midterm election, a lawsuit has claimed.
Dr. Sonia Devgan-Kacker, who owns Westlake Village Pressing Care, is being sued by former affected person Sean Rose.
Within the go well with he factors to a textual content message he obtained from the pressing care facility in the course of Devgan-Kacker’s marketing campaign run for the twenty sixth district seat.
The message, obtained in Might 2026, begins with a “paid” political advert for “Dr. Sonia” prominently that includes her picture and touting her credentials.
It was adopted by a textual content that reads “the clinic shall be open and working beneath regular enterprise hours in the course of the marketing campaign,” the papers say.
The remainder of the textual content allegedly “repeats Dr. Sonia’s credentials” once more and features a hyperlink to the medical doctors marketing campaign.
It ends with a reminder to vote on June 2. Rose notes the telephone quantity on the political advert is for Devgan-Kacker’s marketing campaign, not the clinic, in accordance with the go well with.
“It’s unclear why a message in regards to the clinic’s hours would want to come back from a congressional marketing campaign and never on to clinic sufferers from the clinic itself,” the papers learn.
They go on to say that the clinic admitted the marketing campaign used affected person information to ship the textual content messages in an e mail despatched to Rose on Might 21.
Rose began the e-mail chain questioning if the texts had been despatched by the clinic, in accordance with the go well with.
The clinic responded: “It seems that you had been a affected person at this pressing care a couple of years in the past, which is how we now have your telephone quantity. The textual content message was despatched to all earlier sufferers,” the e-mail within the papers says.
It additionally says the texts had been despatched out by a 3rd celebration service used to ship out textual content blasts. Later within the day Rose claims he was despatched one other e mail making an attempt to “stroll again” the clinic’s response.
“This later e mail acknowledged the outreach was geographically focused to members of the area people and was not supposed to determine or contact people based mostly on affected person standing,” the papers say.
Rose disputes that declare, mentioning that when he went to the clinic he lived in District 26, the place Devgan-Kacker was operating, he has since moved to district 29.
“If Dr. Sonias’ marketing campaign was utilizing the general public voter knowledge, it will have seen that Plaintiff is registered to vote within the twenty ninth district,” the papers say.
The category motion go well with factors to The California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act which states “it prohibits well being care suppliers from disclosing medical info referring to their sufferers with out a affected person’s authorization.”
Rose is in search of statutory and punitive damages together with a judgment that the clinic violated the medical information act.
Devgan-Kacker filed to run for Congress in January shortly after Congresswoman Julia Brownley introduced she wouldn’t search re-election within the twenty sixth district.
“I’m not a profession politician—I resolve issues for a residing. And I’m operating to deliver sensible management, accountability, and real-world expertise to Congress.” she mentioned on her marketing campaign web site.
Her marketing campaign failed, the physician didn’t make it previous June’s main. The Put up reached out the Devgan-Kacker for remark.
