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Motel 6 Will Pay $12 Million After Several Locations Gave
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MIAMI — Stephanie Loraine Piñeiro was 17 when she discovered she was pregnant for the second time.
She says her parents were livid about her first preg- nancy a year earlier, though she never dared tell them she was raped. Her father took her to a clinic for an abortion. On the way home, she says, he threw birth control pills from the clinic out of the car window and ordered her to abstain.
Their Guest Lists To ICE
Motel 6 will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit that said several Washington state locations gave their guest lists to US Immi- gration and Customs Enforcement, accord- ing to the state attorney general's office.
Between 2015 and 2017, seven Motel 6 locations in the state shared approximately 80,000 guests' personal information with ICE without requiring a warrant, Attorney General Bob Ferguson's office said in a news release this week.
The guest lists contained private infor- mation of all guests at the hotel, violating their expectation of privacy.
The hotel chain's disclosures "resulted in ICE's targeted investigation of many guests with Latino-sounding names," the statement said. Motel 6's actions led to "significant harmful consequences, including the deten- tion and deportation of many guests and the suffering of their families."
The hotel chain admitted during the at- torney general's investigation that at least six of its Washington state locations shared guests' information with ICE, according to
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the news release. The investigation revealed a seventh location also gave information to immigration authorities.
"Motel 6's actions tore families apart and violate the privacy rights of tens of thou- sands of Washingtonians," Ferguson said in the statement. "Our resolution holds Motel 6 accountable for illegally handing over guests' private information without a warrant."
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