Original reporting on surveillance, privacy, and policing.
The surveillance economy runs on handshakes, contracts, and payments. FinePrint follows the paper trail.
A LexisNexis demo video, posted publicly and since hidden by the company, walks through how police can use commercial license plate data from tow trucks and hidden cameras to build a "pattern of life" on any vehicle, tie it to 100 million local police records, and run geofence-style searches with no warrant. We break down the full video, minute by minute.
Police Data Pipelines
Accurint Files →The contractual networks through which local police data flows to private brokers and federal agencies, often bypassing sanctuary laws, public oversight, and community consent.
340+ agencies · 38 states · 47 FOIAs filed
About this project →Surveillance Vendors
CSV Tracker →The commercial industry that builds, sells, and profits from surveillance capabilities: spyware, location tracking, facial recognition, license plate readers, and predictive policing tools.
180+ vendors · 94 incidents · 42 countries
About this project →ALPR Surveillance
FlockFeed →Minnesota’s license plate readers: where the cameras are, who they share data with, and whether the audits the law requires are worth the paper they are filed on.
Two projects · both tracking Minnesota agencies
The biennial audits, and who keeps signing them
November 10, 2026·2d ago·PSDEX
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…
Source: accurintfiles.fineprint.report →
November 8, 2026·4d ago·PSDEX
In July, the Faribault Police Department shut off a data feed that had kept copying its police reports into a LexisNexis database long after the city stopped…
Source: muckrock.com →
October 26, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
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…
Source: accurintfiles.fineprint.report →
October 26, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
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…
Source: accurintfiles.fineprint.report →
October 26, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
Culver City has called itself a sanctuary city since 2017, meaning it limits how far its police cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Its police…
Source: accurintfiles.fineprint.report →
October 23, 2026·2w ago·PSDEX
The Cook County Board passed an ordinance this week barring every company with a county contract from giving residents' personal information to immigration…
Source: cook-county.legistar.com →
October 6, 2026·1mo ago·PSDEX
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…
Source: documentcloud.org →
October 2, 2026·1mo ago·PSDEX
Ten privacy and civil rights groups have asked Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown to investigate LexisNexis, Insight LPR, Flock Safety, Motorola, Thomson…
Source: documentcloud.org →