Manhattan Beach PD feeds 360,000 records to LexisNexis and is invisible on the company's public map

Manhattan Beach Police Department has copied 360,707 local police records into LexisNexis's Accurint Virtual Crime Center and does not appear on the company's public Community Crime Map. A LexisNexis contribution report for the agency, released in response to a FinePrint records request, shows 22,599 incident reports and 338,108 dispatch records uploaded as of September 9, 2026, with the feed still running that day. The dispatch feed goes back to April 2018. The same page reads "Contributes to Community Crime Map: No."

That line highlights a major gap in public datasets, and matters far beyond Manhattan Beach. The Community Crime Map data explorer is the only public window into which agencies feed LexisNexis, and it lists only agencies that chose to publish a public map. An agency can switch the map off and keep the AVCC feed on. Manhattan Beach is the first documented case, and there is no reason to think it is the only one. LexisNexis says 2,400 agencies contribute to its police records database. The public explorer lists roughly 1,300 feeds, a number that includes duplicates. The agencies missing from it are a pool of hidden contributors, and if Manhattan Beach is typical, each one has handed over hundreds of thousands of records.

Manhattan Beach is one of six South Bay agencies buying AVCC through a Hawthorne-administered enterprise plan. Its 2020 share was $17,795. The department withholds a short list of record types from the feed, including death investigations, domestic disputes, field interviews and traffic stops. Everything else goes. California's sanctuary law, SB 54, applies to the department. ICE is an AVCC customer who can review data that local agencies submit to LexisNexis's private AVCC database.

The contribution report is embedded below. See also the agencies feeding Accurint, by state.