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Motorola Solutions, Inc.

MSI

Information Technology

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2 themes

Geopolitical Conflict (2) Criminal Justice (1)
MSI Information Technology Current as of March 2026

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For-Profit Prisons
Since Jul 12, 2024

Motorola Solutions provides communications equipment, surveillance systems, and software specifically marketed for use in correctional facilities. The company's website features a dedicated section for "Correctional Facilities," promoting its technology for inmate and officer safety. Public procurement records show contracts with entities like the Oconee County Detention Center for console furniture and with the New York City Department of Correction.

The American Friends Service Committee's Investigate database lists Motorola Solutions as a company whose surveillance products are used in U.S. prisons. While the company's communications technology has broad public safety applications, its targeted development and marketing of integrated security systems for the private prison and detention center industry constitutes a material business relationship with that sector.

Motorola Solutions provides surveillance and communications systems to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Its subsidiary, Motorola Israel, has been documented by Who Profits and AFSC Investigate as supplying the MotoEagle Wide surveillance system to the illegal settlement of Ofra, built on expropriated Palestinian land. The company’s products are integrated into the security infrastructure of settlements considered illegal under international law.

Motorola Solutions has been included in the United Nations database of businesses involved in activities that help maintain Israeli settlements. A 2025 report to the UN Human Rights Council cited evidence of the company’s involvement in settlement expansion over the past decade. While Motorola Solutions states it provides systems to customers in over 100 countries and has human rights policies in place, its specific and sustained provision of technology to settlements in occupied territories forms the basis of this exclusion.

Conflict & War Zones
Since Jul 28, 2021

Motorola Solutions designs, markets, and sells mission-critical communications and surveillance systems to military and government customers globally. Its products include two-way radios, command center software, and video security infrastructure. The company operates in over 100 countries, with its public safety and government segment generating approximately 70% of its total revenue.

Motorola Solutions has faced specific allegations linking its communications technology to human rights violations in active conflict zones. While the company states it avoids activities that could finance armed conflict, its systems are marketed and sold to militaries operating in such areas. The company has not publicly disclosed a policy prohibiting sales to belligerents in active armed conflicts or a framework for human rights due diligence specific to conflict zone engagements.

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