Journalists push back against parent companies’ contracts with ICE
Some reporters at Law360 and Reuters are raising concerns about ICE’s use of their companies’ databases in immigration raids
More than 200 journalists at Law360, a legal news outlet, and its sister publications have signed a letter demanding that their parent company RELX drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
The letter, which was signed by more than 80% of the union representing editorial staff at Law360 and regulation news site MLex, states that the $22.1 million contract “raises imminent human rights concerns” given recent actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS. The five-year contract, signed in 2021, gives DHS access to a database of public records compiled by RELX’s LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
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