Overview
- The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed suit in the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of Kae Rosado and Mark Hodges, seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction.
- The complaint says Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem pushed Apple and Meta to take down a Chicago ICE‑monitoring Facebook group and the Eyes Up app.
- Apple removed ICEBlock and similar apps, including Eyes Up, after what it called law‑enforcement safety alerts, while Facebook disabled Rosado’s group that had nearly 100,000 members.
- Bondi publicly said she demanded Apple pull ICEBlock, and Noem suggested such tools could amount to obstruction, positions FIRE argues violate protected speech rights.
- DHS defended removals as necessary to protect officers, and Rep. Jamie Raskin has opened an inquiry into alleged Justice Department pressure on tech platforms.