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.

Data from the Elk Grove Police Department shows that over a million local records have been copied into a private database run by LexisNexis, with the data then monetized and resold. A screenshot from within the Accurint Virtual Crime Center (AVCC), shared with FinePrint as part of a nationwide project on police data pipelines, showed that the agency shares both 911 dispatch (CAD) and police reports (RMS events) with LexisNexis. The screenshot shows data is shared with AVCC, a database that has netted LexisNexis over $20 million from ICE so federal immigration authorities can access these local police records, including from states with sanctuary laws. The local data copied from Elk Grove PD's database includes victim name and location, witness details, and suspect information.

The page also lists what Elk Grove chose to withhold. Attempted homicide is excluded from the incident feed, while all other types of reports, such as medicals, lost children, and sexual assaults all share information on all parties involved, including 911 callers and any names they say over the phone. Parking complaints, noise complaints, harassment, fraud and forgery, vehicle burglary, recovered property and fatal accidents are excluded from the dispatch feed. Everything else gets copied to LexisNexis.

Elk Grove is one of 22 member agencies in the Central Valley Information Sharing System, the Sacramento-area consortium that buys AVCC through the county Sheriff as fiscal agent. All member agencies sign an MOU that requires them to share their data with LexisNexis. The majority of the agencies who have provided documents in response to FinePrint requests appear to be sharing nationally, including with federal immigration authorities. California's sanctuary law, SB 54, applies to all CVISS agencies.