Motorola Solutions - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Motorola Solutions is High Risk.

Motorola Solutions is High Risk. The company yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Motorola Solutions embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	High Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	High Risk
Political Actions	High Risk

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Motorola Solutions received a score of 100 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (1)(2). The company integrates ESG into its business practices. From its Supplier Environmental Requirements: “Suppliers are required to set and report goals for reduction of their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions to Net Zero by 2050” (3). However, Motorola Solutions has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (4).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Motorola Solutions’ HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company will not donate to non-religious charities unless they embrace controversial sexual identity policies (1)(2). The company likely uses Benevity as its charitable giving platform. Benevity vets charities according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate List, which includes mainstream libertarian, conservative, family, and religious advocacy organizations (3)(4)(5).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Motorola Solutions’ HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company forces employees to attend multiple, controversial trainings on gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender issues, and divisive racial ideology. The company provides gender transition guidelines for its employees and a specific benefits guide with a comprehensive explanation of transgender services funded by the company (1)(2). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment and supply chain. From its 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report: “The business councils support various efforts, including leadership training, cultural awareness and education programs, diversity recruitment outreach”. The company also has “…key strategies in play, such as supplier outreach and inclusive-centric corporate memberships, to demonstrate our best-faith effort for intentionally utilizing qualified suppliers that are not only certified as small but owned by minorities, indigenous people, veterans, women, LGBTQ+ and/or people with disabilities” (3). Motorola Solutions offers “training materials on inclusive behaviors” (4). The company protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (5).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Motorola Solutions’ HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company agrees to allow a controversial stakeholder group focused on sexual identity issues to dictate marketing or advertising strategy. By doing so, the company risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2). The company’s CEO, Greg Brown, signed the Business Roundtable’s 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism over traditional obligations to shareholders (3). Motorola Solutions’ CEO Greg Brown signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace, strategize on DEI programs/initiatives with other signatories, and engage boards of directors when developing and evaluating DEI strategies (4)(5). The company participated in the Equality Illinois Annual Gala (6). Motorola Solutions supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Council (7). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report: “In 2023, we held a ‘3 Weeks of ESG’ event during which employees learned about environmental, social and governance practices through webinars, blog posts and quizzes” (8). Motorola Solutions has also stated that its climate-related goals are in alignment with the Paris Climate Agreement (9). The company scored a 90 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group (10)(11).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Motorola Solutions’ HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company covers transgender related costs for its employees and their children, including paid short-term leave, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, chest surgeries, genital surgeries, medical visits and lab monitoring, travel and lodging. Additionally, the company has pledged philanthropic support of at least one organization or event that promotes sex and gender ideology. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company increases health care costs and risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2). The company was a Brass sponsor of Out & Equal and a founding corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (3)(4). Motorola Solutions has made numerous donations to the National Organization Of Gay And Lesbian Scientists And Technical Profession (5)(6)(7)(8). In 2020, the company donated $27,200 to National Organization Of Black Law Enforcement Executives (9). In 2021, the company donated $35,000 to Anti-Defamation League and is a listed as a grant partner (10)(11). The company is a partner of Illinois Commission on Diversity and Human Relations and the Illinois Diversity Council (12). Motorola Solutions is a partner of Minority Supplier Development United Kingdom and is a partner of National Minority Supplier Development Council (13). The company is a partner of the Out on Patrol Society (14). Motorola Solutions has contributed to the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and Planned Parenthood, however it is unclear whether these are matched employee donations, direct grants, or a mix of both (15). The comany donated $350 to the SPLC, a controversial organization that claims to combat extremism while labeling mainstream political and religious views as “hateful.” The SPLC has faced a number of controversies over the years, including its April 2026 indictment by a federal grand jury for wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and money laundering connected to its alleged funneling of more than $3 million to individuals associated with various violent extremist groups (16)(17)(18)(19). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Motorola Solutions using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (20).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Motorola’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company publicly advocated for controversial sex and gender ideology through local, state or federal legislation or initiatives. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2). The company has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes but has lobbied for the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020” (3)(4)(5).