Findings, signals, and open questions from active investigations.
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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.
Police Data Pipelines
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.…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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.
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Surveillance Vendors
DHS told NPR five days ago that ICE has "no relationship" with Paragon Solutions or "the company that acquired them." The contract closed January 20. The "company that acquired them" is REDLattice - a Virginia cyber…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
CISC confirmed it will provide all board meeting minutes responsive to the CORA request, and some are posted on cisc.colorado.gov. These minutes may contain: governance discussions about federal access or the ICE…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Surveillance Vendors
Lighthouse Reports' 2023 'Ghost in the Network' investigation documented that a Global Title operated by Fink Telecom Services attempted to locate the phone of Fredid Román, a Mexican journalist reporting on organized…
Police Data Pipelines
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,…
Surveillance Vendors
Haaretz Dec 2022 investigation (based on internal Toka documents reviewed by a technical expert) confirmed Toka sells the ability to locate cameras within a perimeter, hack into them, monitor live feeds, and alter both…
Dispatch
FBI UCR data shows Alabama's ratio of law enforcement employees per 1,000 residents climbed sharply from roughly 3.5 in 2023 to approximately 4.4 in 2025 — the highest point in at least four decades of recorded data.…
Police Data Pipelines
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,…
Police Data Pipelines
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…
Surveillance Vendors
Added three additional entities linked to the NSO Group corporate structure: Q Cyber Technologies, OSY Technologies, and a newly identified Luxembourg holding company. Cross-referenced with Amnesty Tech and Citizen Lab…
News
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…