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Journalists push back against parent companies’ contracts with ICE

Poynter · Angela Fu · last updated

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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