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More than 2,400 police departments feed their internal records into a private LexisNexis database. ICE pays $22.1 million to search it. We track who contributes, what the contracts say, and what happens when city councils and city residents find out.
The pipeline runs from local records systems into the Public Safety Data Exchange and out through the Accurint Virtual Crime Center. The Accurint Files publishes the contracts behind it, agency by agency.
November 10, 2026·2 min read
LexisNexis, one of several data brokers that share local police data with ICE and other agencies, added more than 330,000 police records to its dataset since our last update, bringing the total past 176 million across 1,
November 8, 2026·18 min read
LexisNexis says 72 Minnesota police agencies send data to a private database, the same one used by ICE for targeting and deportations. Emails show police departments being reminded that LN uses their data, and all participants continued sharing until FinePrint asked questions.
October 26, 2026·3 min read
El Segundo, a South Bay city of about 16,600 people, has at least four contracts that move police data to LexisNexis, one of the largest data brokers in the country. In September, its police department refused to release
October 26, 2026·4 min read
Ohio's statewide pipeline into LexisNexis's Community Crime Map stopped on September 15. In our September 24 snapshot of the map's public agency roster, 254 Ohio feeds had uploaded within the previous ten days. In the Oc
October 26, 2026·2 min read
Culver City has called itself a sanctuary city since 2017, meaning it limits how far its police cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Its police department also sends records to the Accurint Virtual Crime Cente
October 23, 2026·3 min read
The ordinance applies to every company with a Cook County contract and follows years of pressure over a jail notification vendor that could share custody data with LexisNexis.
October 6, 2026·1 min read
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
October 2, 2026·3 min read
Ten privacy and civil rights groups have asked Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown to investigate LexisNexis, Insight LPR, Flock Safety, Motorola, Thomson Reuters, Penlink and ThunderCat Technology for violating the
September 14, 2026·1 min read
Elk Grove, California has sent LexisNexis 1.25 million local police records, from 911 call data to police reports themselves.
September 14, 2026·2 min read
California limits how local police help federal immigration enforcement. The Accurint Virtual Crime Center is a commercial database that California police agencies feed, and that ICE pays to search. Here is how those two
September 8, 2026·7 min read
The CEO of LexisNexis Government Risk Solutions sent a notice to police departments across the country on July 1 asking them to contact LexisNexis before responding to public records requests. They warn about the MuckRoc
September 6, 2026·2 min read
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 requ
August 31, 2026·4 min read
On May 11, 2026, a public records request landed in the inbox of the Maplewood Police Department, a St. Paul suburb of about 42,000 people. The requester, researching on behalf of FinePrint, wanted to know how the depart
August 24, 2026·3 min read
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 appro
August 21, 2026·3 min read
Call Apple Valley police to report a crash, a stolen bike, or a relative in a mental health crisis, and your information is copied into a private database that law enforcement agencies across the country can search, incl
August 19, 2026·3 min read
The 2024 case, which has not previously been reported, shows ICE using LexisNexis to circumvent the Illinois TRUST act, preventing access to local law enforcement records.
August 11, 2026·2 min read
San Luis Obispo Police Department signed an agreement in 2019 committing its records to a national LexisNexis database that federal agencies can access. We obtained the signed agreement through a public records request.
July 24, 2026·3 min read
The University of Texas at Austin signed its police department up to contribute records to the LexisNexis Public Safety Data Exchange, making UTPD the first university police force confirmed as a contributor to the priva
July 15, 2026·1 min read
A Defense Department counterintelligence unit bought LexisNexis Accurint to screen its own workforce, and required the vendor to make employees' family members searchable.
June 21, 2026·2 min read
Miami Township Police Department in Montgomery County, Ohio agreed to feed its records into LexisNexis's national law enforcement database, and in the same contract declined to share anonymized crime data and crime maps
June 21, 2026·2 min read
A six-page LexisNexis setup guide lays out the plumbing behind the Public Safety Data Exchange — and states plainly that the company prefers raw, unfiltered access to a department's entire records system over a curated slice of it.
June 19, 2026·2 min read
A Colorado consortium's master contract bars LexisNexis from making service access conditional on data contribution, and it requires an agency's written consent before any of its records enter the national PSDEX pool.
June 11, 2026·1 min read
A LexisNexis administrator manual shows the public Community Crime Map and the Accurint Virtual Crime Center run on a single shared data layer, classified through one console at accurint.com. The Data Classification Mana
June 6, 2026·1 min read
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
June 4, 2026·1 min read
Oregon law limits how local police can assist federal immigration enforcement. The contract the Portland Police Bureau signed routes its records into a national LexisNexis database that federal agencies can search anyway — under a license the bureau cannot take back.
May 31, 2026·1 min read
A 2021 expert report filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida shows a private sector forensic accountant using LexisNexis Accurint for Law Enforcement as a primary research database — in a civil asset r
May 31, 2026·1 min read
A city council memo from Oklahoma City, dated April 21, 2026, reveals that the police department negotiated a specific amendment to its LexisNexis AVCC contract restricting access to contributed data to authorized consor
May 30, 2026·1 min read
The Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office joined the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium in 2024, signing a standard LexisNexis addendum that commits the agency's records to the CISC Data Warehouse — which the contract
May 28, 2026·1 min read
Arvada PD's Policy 460 (effective June 11, 2025) states in its data retention section that mobile ALPR data "is also retained by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, per agreement with the Arvada Police Department." The department
May 28, 2026·1 min read
In response to a public records request, the Downers Grove Police Department in Illinois confirmed that it actively contributes police records data to LexisNexis AVCC — and acknowledged it has no way to monitor what othe
May 22, 2026·1 min read
CISC states: 'Sharing beyond the consortium occurs only if and to the extent the contributing agency affirmatively authorizes that sharing. Agencies may tailor, limit, or revoke those permissions.' This directly conflict
May 20, 2026·1 min read
CISC confirmed in writing: 'CISC has a master agreement with LexisNexis. Member agencies that elect to participate do so by executing a joinder (referred to as an addendum and joinder). By executing that document, a memb
May 19, 2026·1 min read
CISC's May 2026 CORA response (Robert Nanney, Executive Director) explicitly states: 'That data is stored in the CISC Regional Data Warehouse (a PSDEX private container maintained by LexisNexis).' This is the first time
May 17, 2026·1 min read
CISC states it does not possess ICDs, data-mapping guides, field-translation tables, or technical specs. LexisNexis redacted Schedule A pricing as confidential commercial information. Individual agencies say they are 'ju
May 15, 2026·1 min read
Initial review of CT state contracts suggests LPR data sharing occurs through a different channel than the standard AVCC/PSDEX pipeline. Needs deeper FOIA + contract analysis to confirm whether CT is contributing, bypass
May 14, 2026·1 min read
Several cities that have declared themselves sanctuary jurisdictions still appear in PSDEX contributor lists via regional consortiums. Mechanism unclear — whether through state-level contracts that preempt local policy,
May 13, 2026·1 min read
Reviewing DHS BSIR grant language for FY2025 — several cities used grant funds explicitly for 'interoperable data sharing platforms compatible with national LPR networks.' This may represent a previously undocumented fed
May 11, 2026·1 min read
New litigation challenges use of LexisNexis Accurint data — the same pipeline feeding PSDEX — in deportation enforcement. The suit argues the data sharing violates Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searche
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