Rosado et al. v. Bondi et al.

The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public. Kae Rosado and Mark Hodges were exercising that right when they respectively created a Facebook group and an app that hosted video footage of ICE operations to inform the public and hold our government accountable.

Mark runs Kreisau Group, which aims to preserve evidence of governmental abuses of power. On his Eyes Up app, users can upload videos, record new videos, or access uploaded videos, which Eyes Up arranges on a map of the United States after Mark and his moderators review and approve each video.

Kae, who has her own jewelry business, started a Facebook group in January 2025 after seeing fear in her community about the impact of ICE raids on daily life in Chicago. She and other small business owners noticed attendance dropping at community events where they’d set up shop. The aim of the group — “ICE Sightings – Chicagoland” — was for fellow small business owners, friends, and family to share information about ICE operations in Chicago. The group remained small until September 2025, when ICE commenced and publicly touted an enforcement surge in Chicago dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz.” Chicagoans increasingly feared being injured or arrested, and Kae’s group grew to include nearly 100,000 members. 

In a statement to Fox News, Bondi boasted on October 2 that “We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple did so.” In fact, Apple had removed several ICE-related apps, including Eyes Up. Though Apple had closely examined and approved the app the month before, Apple now claimed that the app violated the app store’s prohibition on “mean-spirited” content. Not long after, following outreach from Bondi’s Department of Justice, Facebook disabled Kae’s Facebook group. Bondi claimed credit on X for the removal.

Courts have consistently held that speech concerning the public activities of law enforcement officers and other government employees — from warning fellow citizens of speed traps to publishing videos of law enforcement officers engaged in their duties — is protected by the First Amendment. The government can’t dodge those constitutional protections by coercing tech platforms into becoming state censors.

On February 11, 2026, FIRE filed a lawsuit on behalf of Kae and Kreisau Group. The lawsuit seeks a judgment declaring Bondi and Noem’s coercion of Facebook and Apple unconstitutional and enjoining them from continuing to coerce tech companies into removing our clients’ protected speech.