Berkeley , California became the nation ’s first sanctuary city in 1971 , and tomorrow its city council will train to refine what that means in 2019 with an ordinance designed to pressure secret society who collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
One of the vendors likely to be affected is Westlaw , a effectual research shaft which “ accumulates data on 90 million hitch record and 22,000 pieces of booking data a year , ” as well as information on the probability of that person ’s sound condition , grant to Councilperson Kate Harrison . “ That is data ICE uses people directly to deport people from jail . ” Initial analysis by the City Manager suggests LexisNexis might put up a suitable alternative for Berkeley ’s needs . “ Westlaw has an chance to moot , ” Harrison said , “ would they care to foreshorten with local governments or would they like to contract with trash ? ”
The SCO does n’t break up existing contract bridge , it only bars those company from reincarnate or securing contracts in the future . In the vitrine of Westlaw , it would have around three days to think Harrison ’s ultimatum .
The reach of the ordinance is perhaps more narrow than might be expected though , and beyond Westlaw there seems to be confusion as to which vender would even be impacted . A memo write by City Manager Dee Williams - Riley , hold by the New York Times and Gizmodo , shows the considerable impact migrating away from Amazon Web Services might have on Berkeley . Councilperson Harrison also cited Microsoft as a possible objective , but was unclear on the specific details that would put it in the SCO ’s crosshairs .
worker within Microsoft and Amazon have been critical of their fellowship ’s willingness to assist ICE ’s missionary post . However , neither firm ’s work has , to public knowledge , bridged into extreme vetting or lineal data brokerage . “ [ Web ] storage in and of itself is not harming hoi polloi , ” Hofer said , put forward that he considered his early hardline approach against ICE “ completely impractical . ”
If pass , the SCO might not be the blow to big tech it wasfloated as , but it ’s a dance step in the coalition - building mental process that could propel or sink intimately superposable nation - wide legislation stick in to the California legislaturelast workweek . Put another elbow room by Hofer , “ This is one of the only tool at the local point where we can have an impact on federal immigration policy . ”
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