Ross Valley School District Plans to Sign Contract with ICE Partner

Thomas Reuters provides data from their CLEAR service to ICE

The Ross Valley School District is discussing plans to sign a contract for $5,500 (link to RVSD's Board Documents) with the Thomas Reuters, Inc. for their CLEAR Address Verification Services. In international news, however, Thomas Reuters is under fire for providing personal information from the CLEAR system to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) as part of federal contracts with the US government.

The Intercept reports that:

Thomson Reuters Special Services sells ICE “a continuous monitoring and alert service that provides real-time jail booking data to support the identification and location of aliens” as part of a $6.7 million contract, and West Publishing, another subsidiary, provides ICE’s “Detention Compliance and Removals” office with access to a vast license-plate scanning database, along with agency access to the Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting, or CLEAR, system, which Thomson Reuters advertises as holding a “vast collection of public and proprietary records.” The two West contracts are together worth $26 million.

        https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/thomson-reuters-defends-its-work-for-ice/

According to Time, Thomas Reuters Special Services CEO Stephen Rubley is also a board member of the ICE Foundation (link to Time.com).

UPDATE: The item was discussed in the 8/14/18 Board meeting, and approved on 8/28/18.

According to Medium, Thomas Reuters has in place:

A contract to provide ICE access to Thomson Reuters’ Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting (CLEAR) system, which contains information that ICE uses to identify and target suspects, businesses and assets for arrest, seizure, and forfeiture. CLEAR provides access to billions of records, sourced from both government agencies and private suppliers. RELX’s Accurint is CLEAR’s main competitor. The product interfaces with law enforcement agency databases in real-time, feeding data through Palantir’s FALCON analysis system, Peter Thiel’s “automated policing” technology that decides whether people should be targeted for investigation.