Vendors must say if they work with ICE

The Syracuse Common Council is now making vendors disclose if they do business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Vendors will now be required to simply check a box when trying to get a city contract.

This comes after concerns were raised by some that city money was going to companies that worked with ICE.

“This is not the most exciting thing — a check box on a vendor contract. It is the thing that we can do to ensure that we know who we are funding and what they are being funded by,” Democratic Common Councilor-at-Large Hanah Ehrenreich.

Despite this change, the city can still maintain existing contracts with companies that work with ICE.