Austin's fusion center buys Accurint Virtual Crime Center for six agencies

A February 2023 City of Austin council item authorized a five-year cooperative contract with LexisNexis Risk Solutions, up to $1.8 million, for the Accurint Virtual Crime Center. The contract was bought through the Texas Department of Information Resources cooperative and routed to the Austin Regional Intelligence Center, the regional fusion center hosted by the Austin Police Department. The same license covers five other agencies: the University of Texas police in Austin, the Austin Independent School District police, and the Georgetown, Round Rock, and Travis County departments. The document confirms that all six query the platform through the fusion center. It does not include the data-contribution addendum, so whether any of these agencies feed their own records into the LexisNexis Public Safety Data Exchange remains an open question. Records requests for the executed contract and the underlying state cooperative are the next step.