September 14, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
Elk Grove, CA shares over a million local police records with data broker LexisNexis
Elk Grove, California has sent LexisNexis 1.25 million local police records, from 911 call data to police reports themselves.
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St. Louis Park's license plate cameras were pulled into nationwide immigration searches, and a Texas abortion case
The city's own Flock Safety records show outside agencies searched its cameras for immigration enforcement 2,637 times, and once for a woman who had an abortion. St. Louis Park says it has since blocked such searches, and points to serious cases the cameras helped solve when justifying their use.
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September 14, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
California's sanctuary law and the LexisNexis contract, explained
California limits how local police help federal immigration enforcement. The Accurint Virtual Crime Center is a commercial database that California police...
Source: oag.ca.gov →
September 12, 2026·2w ago·CSV
An Israeli firm coached Indonesia on finding gay men on Facebook and tracked a Mozambican opposition leader days after his arrest. Haaretz has its files.
An Israeli company coached Indonesian government staff on how to find gay men on Facebook. A CyberGlobes analyst told them to search the local slang for gay,...
Source: haaretz.com →
September 8, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
LexisNexis told police departments nationwide to call the company before answering our public records requests
The CEO of LexisNexis Government Risk Solutions sent a notice to police departments across the country on July 1 asking them to contact LexisNexis before...
Source: documentcloud.org →
September 6, 2026·3w ago·PSDEX
Dearborn police send every type of report they write, including child sex abuse and medical calls, to a LexisNexis database the FBI and ICE can search
Dearborn Police Department shares all 1,405 categories of report it generates with LexisNexis, with nothing held back, according to a data classification sheet...
Source: documentcloud.org →
September 5, 2026·3w ago·CSV
Paragon's Owner Got $5.6M from General Dynamics in July. The Filing Doesn't Say Who Paid.
General Dynamics Information Technology issued a $5.6 million subcontract to REDLattice on July 15, according to a SAM.gov subaward record surfaced by Jack...
Source: substack.com →
September 4, 2026·3w ago·News
Minneapolis police are buying license plate readers with forfeiture money
The Minneapolis Police Department is buying mobile license plate readers, the kind mounted on squad cars, and paying for them with forfeiture money. An...
Source: minnesotareformer.com →
August 31, 2026·4w ago·PSDEX
Maplewood police forwarded a records request about ICE data sharing to the company that holds their data
On May 11, 2026, a public records request landed in the inbox of the Maplewood Police Department, a St. Paul suburb of about 42,000 people. The requester,...
Source: muckrock.com →