Miami Township police give LexisNexis their full records, but withheld community crime maps from the public

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 with the public.

The department signed the Accurint Virtual Crime Center (AVCC) XML Addendum in May 2026. Section I.2 commits it to contribute its public safety information to the Public Safety Data Exchange, the private database where local police records become searchable by agencies across the country, including federal customers. Section II.1 hands LexisNexis a paid up, irrevocable, worldwide license to those records. The license survives cancellation. If Miami Township walks away tomorrow, LexisNexis keeps what it already has.

Each city sets up the system differently. Some allow LexisNexis to copy their police records and 911 call data every 15 minutes, while others allow access once per night. The data is copied from the city's databases each day into LexisNexis's private database. To-date, LexisNexis has over 100 million records from local law enforcement agencies, including Miami Township.

The same page of the addendum offers a choice. A department can agree to release a de-identified subset of its data, the crime type, the date and time, and the general area of an incident, to the third parties that build public crime maps. Miami Township initialed the line declining to do that. So the full records flow into the law enforcement exchange, and the stripped-down, address-anonymized version that a resident might use to see what is happening on their street is the one piece the township held back.

The private network reachable by federal agencies gets everything. The public gets nothing. Typically LexisNexis offers their Community Crime Map product to agencies for free as part of a AVCC contract.

The township pays six thousand dollars a year for the platform, which also includes jail booking data and access to full Social Security and driver's license numbers through LexisNexis. The records came back through a public records request filed with the township.

Miami Township is not doing this alone. It joined to share the Accurint Virtual Crime Center with seven neighboring departments, Centerville, Germantown, Kettering, Miamisburg, Moraine, Springboro, and West Carrollton, the police agencies of the Miami Valley Communications Council's Tactical Crime Suppression Unit. While some regional police consortiums only share data with each other, it appears that Miami Township PD shares data with the 2,100 AVCC subscribers, which includes ICE, DHS, the FBI, the Navy, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The township has at least two school resource officers (SROs) assigned to work at schools. These officers use the same records systems that are shared with LexisNexis and thousands of law enforcement agencies.

Miami Township is one of several agencies that have signed free trial agreements with LexisNexis, indicating that they chose to take the product for a test-drive before choosing to pay $6,000 a year to access the software and share data with thousands of local, state, and federal agencies.