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 the department produced in response to a public records request. Dearborn is the only Arab-majority city in the United States: 54.5 percent of its 110,000 residents reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry in the 2020 census.

We have collected these classification sheets from several departments. Dearborn is the first where the answer to "which reports do you share" is all of them. Medical assists, mental health calls, suicide attempts by juveniles, hospice deaths, overdoses, 911 welfare checks, family trouble calls, child protective services referrals, child abuse, and every degree of criminal sexual conduct are marked "Viewable By: Public and Law Enforcement." So is a report type labeled Illegal Entry - Immigration. Each of those reports names the people in it. Victims, witnesses, and the person who dialed 911 are in the record alongside any suspect. The sheet shows the feed was updated as recently as July 17, 2026.

The pipe is the Accurint Virtual Crime Center, LexisNexis Risk Solutions' search platform for police. AVCC lets an officer run a name against commercial records and the pooled reports of other departments. That pool is the Public Safety Data Exchange, or PSDEX. A department gets in by signing the AVCC XML Addendum, which trades access to everyone else's records for a copy of its own. LexisNexis then sells access to the pool. A six-year Department of Justice contract announced in January 2020 put AVCC in front of the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Marshals Service. ICE held a separate contract worth about $22 million. A federal agent searching PSDEX needs no warrant, no subpoena and no call to Dearborn.

Sergeant James Isaacs signed Dearborn's addendum on July 28, 2022. Section I.2 states the department "hereby agrees to contribute public safety information" that other PSDEX customers may use "for analysis, investigations and reporting." Section II.1 grants LexisNexis "a paid up, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license" to use, aggregate, transfer and distribute those records. Section II.6 says all data "will be retained by LN and remain accessible by others" unless the department asks in writing. Canceling the subscription does not pull the records back.

Two documents, taken together, answer a question most departments cannot or will not: what exactly leaves the building. In Dearborn the answer is everything, and it has been since 2022.

The signed addendum is on DocumentCloud. The classification sheet is on MuckRock: https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2026/09/01/Data_Classification_Crime_Results.xlsx