Federal Way police get a daily receipt from LexisNexis confirming their records were copied

LexisNexis emails the Federal Way Police Department a receipt every morning confirming that another day of local police reports has been copied into its private national database. The July 9, 2026 report logged 385 approved incidents and details on 1,037 people. Federal Way has 201,883 reports in the system.

The notices come from psimporter-no-reply@lexisnexis.com to a city email account. FinePrint obtained the July 8 report, which shows the same pattern one day earlier: 330 incidents, 887 people, 141 vehicles, 231 pieces of property, and 389 modus operandi entries, all copied overnight.

What gets sent

The transfer is not a filtered extract. The report names the source file, FederalWay_RMS.mdb, the department's records management database, handed over whole. LexisNexis assigns Federal Way a data provider ID, 3508, and places the people and incidents on a map.

System errors

Five records were quarantined on July 8, and the report lists each by incident number and crime type: an internet crimes against children case, a sex offense involving obscene media, a marijuana sale investigation, an impounded vehicle, a recovered stolen vehicle, and a record typed "OTHER NON CRIMES." All five failed for the same reason printed in the report, a missing date and time field. Each carries the same payload as the reports that went through: person records, vehicle and property details, and modus operandi entries.

From local police to Palantir

Records that enter the exchange become searchable by the agencies that pay LexisNexis for access. ICE holds a contract worth up to $22.1 million and searched LexisNexis databases more than 1.2 million times between March and September 2021, according to records obtained by Just Futures Law and reported by The Intercept. The Justice Department upgraded to the Accurint Virtual Crime Center under a six-year award covering the FBI, DEA, ATF, the US Marshals Service, and US Attorneys. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service sought 250 subscriptions for its Multiple Threat Alert Center on a sole-source basis.

In August 2026, 404 Media reported that ICE plans to pay LexisNexis millions more for continued access, and that the procurement records name LexID and the Accurint Virtual Crime Center by name. The government's stated requirement is that the database connect by API to ICE applications including the Palantir platform. Federal Way's reports feed the same Accurint system named in that procurement.

Federal Way police did not send their records to any of them. They sent them to a private vendor, once, and the vendor sells access to the data nationwide.

The receipt is the point

Federal Way receives daily confirmations of this data transfer. At least 2,400 separate agencies across the United States send their most sensitive police data to LexisNexis. Some subscribe to Accurint Virtual Crime Center (AVCC), while others receive free access to use CommunityCrimeMap.com in exchange for sharing access to their police records with LexisNexis. Most city councils never know or approve of local data leaving the city.

Those 385 police reports list 1,037 people, including victims and witnesses, people requesting permits, and other interactions with law enforcement that result in their data being copied and access sold to federal agencies, the military, and thousands of police departments across the U.S. Local residents who interact with police never consented to their data being pulled into the nationwide dragnet, and none of them will be told by their police or city.

The data import count resets tomorrow.

Annotated copy of the import report: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28571322-lexisnexis-ccm-data-import/

404 Media on the ICE procurement naming Accurint and Palantir: https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/