Washington Attorney General Sues Motel 6 for Sharing Guest Information With ICEPhoenix New Times, Jan 3, 2018, Antonia Noori Farzan
The state of Washington has filed a consumer protection and civil rights lawsuit against the Motel 6 chain for violating customers' privacy.
In September, Phoenix New Times revealed that employees at two Phoenix-area Motel 6s had been regularly sharing guest information with ICE. After our story was picked up by national news outlets, Motel 6 pledged to discontinue the practice and claimed that it had been "undertaken at the local level without the knowledge of senior management."
We now have evidence that the same thing was happening in Washington. "It was not isolated to two hotels in Phoenix, not by a long shot," Attorney General Bob Ferguson said at a press conference today.
After reading New Times' reporting back in September, Ferguson directed his staff to investigate whether something similar was taking place at Motel 6's Washington locations. "I was not impressed by Motel 6’s response at all," he said.
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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/washington-attorney-general-sues-motel-6-for-sharing-guest-information-with-ice-10007370
