The £9.6 billion company behind Accurint

01Four businesses, one balance sheet

Where the money comes from.

RELX reports four business areas. Risk, which contains LexisNexis Risk Solutions and therefore Accurint, is the biggest and the most profitable. Legal, the Lexis+ business most lawyers think of as “LexisNexis,” is the smallest of the four and runs the thinnest margin.

Two things to hold onto. RELX is an American company in everything but its registered address: 58% of revenue and 79% of Risk revenue come from North America. And it is a renewal business. Over half of group revenue is subscription, rising to 80% at Elsevier and 85% in Legal, on contracts RELX describes to investors as typically three years long. The company was worth about £55 billion at the end of 2025 and paid £1.5 billion to buy back its own shares that year, with £2.25 billion planned for 2026. Its chief executive, Erik Engstrom, has run it since 2009 and was paid £11.4 million in 2025.

02Where the ICE work sits

A slice of a slice of a slice.

Accurint lives inside Risk. Risk is 36% of RELX. Inside Risk, RELX splits revenue into four verticals, and government is the smallest.

“Just over 5%” of £3,485 million is somewhere around £175 to £200 million, or roughly $240 million a year. RELX says that Government business serves “over 8,000 federal, state, and local agencies,” and most of what it describes is identity checks for benefits and fraud programs, the machinery for “how the government dispenses hundreds of billions of dollars in entitlements.” The police products, Accurint for Law Enforcement, the Virtual Crime Center and the Public Safety Data Exchange, are a portion of that 5%. RELX does not say how large a portion.

The ICE contract itself is smaller still. The 2021 LEIDS award was $16.8 million, raised to $22.1 million over five years when real-time jail booking data was added: about $4.4 million a year. The bridge contract ICE proposed in August 2026 is $6.7 million for a year. Customs and Border Protection has a separate deal worth up to $15.9 million through 2027. Add every DHS award to RELX entities since 2005 and the total is about $172 million over two decades, less than RELX earns in a single week.

The contract RELX is defending is worth about three hundredths of one percent of its revenue. The customers it risks losing over it are the other 99.97%.$4.4m a year against $12.7bn, from RELX’s own figures

This is the asymmetry the rest of this page is built on. RELX has kept the ICE relationship through five years of letters, lawsuits, student protests and a newsroom revolt because, so far, the cost of keeping it has been zero. Nobody who pays RELX the other 99.97% has made it a condition of renewal. The question for anyone who wants to do something is which of those customers they can reach.

03Business by business

What each division sells, who buys it, and what they could buy instead.

A pressure campaign only works on a business whose customers can leave. For each RELX division: what it is, how much it earns, who pays, the alternatives, and whether those alternatives are any cleaner on ICE. Leverage ratings are our judgment.

04What ICE does with it

Twenty years, one product, and a lot of searches.

The same Virtual Crime Center that local police departments feed with their records is the tool ICE buys. This is the documented history.

The 2021 FOIA records show over 700,000 were “Advanced Person Search” queries, which take fragments (a relative, a nickname, a former employer) and return a person. More than 260,000 came from Enforcement and Removal Operations, the branch that finds and deports people. ICE’s Chicago office alone ran more than 13,000 LexisNexis searches for civil immigration enforcement in 2021, in a city and county with sanctuary ordinances. Cook County’s jail bookings reach LexisNexis through a victim-notification vendor, Appriss, every 15 minutes or so; the county never signed anything with ICE.

That last case is the reason this site exists. Local police records reach ICE through a private company that the sanctuary law never mentions. The AVCC XML Addendum that agencies sign grants LexisNexis an irrevocable license to their data. LexisNexis, in turn, sells ICE access to the Virtual Crime Center that data lands in. We have not yet traced a single ICE query to a single local contribution; that record is what our FOIA work is trying to build. But ICE’s own procurement notice from August 2026 names the Virtual Crime Center as the product “only LexisNexis can provide,” and wants it wired into Palantir.

05Where RELX is exposed

The risks, in the company’s own words.

RELX’s filings do not mention ICE, boycotts, or human rights as risks. They do describe a business that lives on renewals, reputation and the good opinion of institutions that are, right now, being asked to take a side.

06The pressure logic

Who to talk to.

Campaigns against RELX have mostly asked RELX. Five years of that produced no response. The customers who fund the company have not been asked at all. Ranked by how reachable they are and how much RELX would notice. Each one comes with an email you can copy, add your own details to, and send.

1. 1

   Law school deans and law librarians

   Lexis is in over 210 US law schools, and student licenses are how RELX recruits the next generation of paying lawyers. Students already organized in 2021 and 2023; the missing piece was a dean willing to put it in the renewal letter. The American Association of Law Libraries meets every July.

   The ask: Make the next Lexis renewal conditional on RELX ending federal immigration-enforcement access to Accurint, or move student licenses to vLex or Bloomberg Law.

   ›Example email

   Subject: Our Lexis contract and ICE

   Dear Dean [Name] and [Library Director],
   
   I am a [student / alum / faculty member] at [School]. I am writing about our LexisNexis contract.
   
   LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the same RELX division that sells us Lexis+, sells ICE a database called the Accurint Virtual Crime Center. ICE ran 1.2 million searches in it in seven months of 2021, and in August 2026 asked to wire it into Palantir for 11,200 agents. The records it holds include booking and incident data from local police departments, some in sanctuary cities. RELX's own filings put the ICE contract at about $4 million a year, against $12.7 billion in revenue.
   
   We train people to represent the clients ICE is searching for. I do not think we should be renewing with the company that runs the search without saying something.
   
   I am asking for two things. First, that [School] tell RELX, in writing and before our next renewal, that continued federal immigration-enforcement access to locally contributed police data is a factor in whether we renew. Second, that the library evaluate vLex, Bloomberg Law and CourtListener for student research so the alternative is real when the conversation happens.
   
   I am not asking us to switch to Westlaw. Thomson Reuters holds its own ICE contracts. I am asking us to use the leverage we already have.
   
   I would be glad to meet. The documentation is at accurintfiles.fineprint.report/about-relx.
   
   [Name]
   [Class year / title]

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2. 2

   University library consortia

   They negotiate Elsevier’s Big Deals, they have cancelled before, and vendor surveillance is already on their agenda. A consortium letter to RELX carries the weight of the 28% of revenue Elsevier brings in.

   The ask: Add RELX’s law-enforcement data practices to the criteria for the next Elsevier negotiation and say so publicly.

   ›Example email

   Subject: RELX's ICE data business and our Elsevier negotiation

   Dear [Consortium director / Collections committee],
   
   I am a [faculty member / librarian / graduate student] at [Institution], a member of [Consortium]. I am writing ahead of the next Elsevier negotiation.
   
   Elsevier is 28% of RELX's revenue. The same parent company, through LexisNexis Risk Solutions, sells ICE a database of local police records and jail bookings that ICE searched 1.2 million times in seven months and now wants integrated with Palantir. Our subscription money funds the company that does this. RELX's 2025 filings show the ICE contract is worth about $4 million a year, which is to say RELX keeps it because nobody who matters has objected.
   
   A consortium that has cancelled Elsevier before over pricing can put one more item on the list. I am asking that [Consortium] add RELX's law-enforcement and immigration data practices to its vendor criteria, raise it in the next negotiation, and say publicly that it has done so. SPARC and the Portland State library faculty have already framed RELX as a surveillance vendor; a consortium letter carries far more weight.
   
   The financial and contract documentation is at accurintfiles.fineprint.report/about-relx. I am happy to present it to the committee.
   
   [Name]
   [Title, Institution]

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   Law firms and corporate legal departments

   About 70% of Legal revenue. RELX is telling investors that Lexis+ AI adoption is what will carry the company. General counsel at companies with immigrant workforces, and immigration and civil-rights practices at large firms, are the natural first movers.

   The ask: Ask your Lexis account manager, in writing, for RELX’s policy on ICE access to locally contributed police data. Keep the answer.

   ›Example email

   Subject: Question for our LexisNexis renewal

   Dear [General Counsel / Library Director / Lexis account manager],
   
   Before we renew Lexis+, I want a written answer to one question.
   
   LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RELX's largest division, sells ICE a database called the Accurint Virtual Crime Center that contains records contributed by more than 2,100 local police departments. ICE searched it 1.2 million times in seven months of 2021 and in August 2026 sought to feed it into Palantir for 11,200 agents. Our firm [represents immigrant clients / employs people whose families are affected / advises companies with immigrant workforces].
   
   The question: what is RELX's policy on federal immigration-enforcement access to locally contributed police data, and will RELX commit to excluding it?
   
   I am not proposing we move to Westlaw; Thomson Reuters has the same problem. I am proposing that we ask, keep the answer on file, and weigh it. RELX reports that Lexis+ AI renewals are what its growth depends on. That gives our question weight it would not otherwise have.
   
   Background at accurintfiles.fineprint.report/about-relx.
   
   [Name]
   [Title]

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4. 4

   Authors, artists and guests at ReedPop conventions

   The only part of RELX the public walks into. BookCon lost guests in February 2026 over exactly this. New York Comic Con is in October.

   The ask: Condition appearances on a public commitment from RELX, aimed at the parent, not the show.

   ›Example email

   Subject: My appearance at [Convention] and RELX

   Dear [ReedPop programming contact],
   
   Thank you for the invitation to [Convention]. Before I confirm, I want to be direct about something.
   
   ReedPop is owned by RELX. RELX, through LexisNexis Risk Solutions, sells ICE a database of local police and jail records that ICE has searched more than a million times and is now connecting to Palantir. ReedPop has said it operates at arm's length and does not sell attendee data to DHS, and I take that at face value. But my appearance sells tickets for RELX, and RELX's own filings show the ICE contract is a rounding error it could drop tomorrow.
   
   I will appear if RELX makes a public commitment to exclude federal immigration enforcement from the local police data it sells, or to end the ICE contract. Otherwise I will pass this year and say why. I am asking you to carry that message up, because you are closer to the parent than my readers are.
   
   Details: accurintfiles.fineprint.report/about-relx.
   
   [Name]

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5. 5

   City councils that pay for Accurint

   Each renewal is a public vote. Duluth’s passed 7 to 2 in January 2026 after a disrupted meeting; Oklahoma City heard the objection in February. Enough councils demanding the “NO DATA CONTRIBUTIONS” addendum changes what LexisNexis has to sell ICE.

   The ask: Use the language on our City Councils page. Ask for the addendum variant as well as the vote.

   ›Example email

   Subject: Our LexisNexis Accurint contract: one request before the vote

   Dear Councilmember [Name],
   
   I live in [City]. I am writing about the [Police Department]'s LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center contract, which is up for [renewal / approval] on [date].
   
   Agencies that sign the standard AVCC XML Addendum grant LexisNexis an irrevocable license to their records, which go into a national pool called the Public Safety Data Exchange. ICE buys access to the same product. It ran 1.2 million searches in seven months of 2021 and is now connecting it to Palantir. Our police reports, including victim and witness information, can end up in front of ICE without anyone in this building deciding that they should.
   
   I am not asking you to vote no. I am asking you to require one document: the "NO DATA CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSDEX" version of the addendum, which LexisNexis already offers and which Duluth, Minnesota signed. The department keeps its tool. Our residents' records stay out of the pool. Please ask the chief, on the record, which version of the addendum we signed.
   
   The contract language is explained at accurintfiles.fineprint.report/city-council.
   
   [Name]
   [Address]

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6. 6

   BlackRock, Invesco and the RELX annual meeting

   The two disclosed shareholders hold nearly 15% between them and no family blocks the vote. Thomson Reuters investors reached 70% independent support for a human-rights review in 2021. Nobody has filed the equivalent at RELX.

   The ask: A shareholder resolution for an independent human-rights impact assessment of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ law-enforcement and immigration products, filed for the April 2027 meeting.

   ›Example email

   Subject: RELX PLC: request for a human-rights review of LexisNexis Risk Solutions

   Dear [Stewardship team],
   
   I am a [client / plan participant / shareholder] with assets managed by [BlackRock / Invesco], which holds [9.67% / 4.99%] of RELX PLC.
   
   RELX's LexisNexis Risk Solutions sells ICE a database of local police records that ICE searched 1.2 million times in seven months and, as of August 2026, is integrating with Palantir for 11,200 users. More than 200 of RELX's own journalists asked the company in March 2026 to end the contract and commission a human-rights review. RELX did not respond. Its 20-F names reputation and "perceived failure" on personal data as principal risks, and its shares have fallen by about a third in a year on concerns about its moat.
   
   Thomson Reuters investors reached 70% independent support for a comparable human-rights review in 2021. No one has filed the equivalent at RELX, where there is no controlling shareholder.
   
   I am asking [BlackRock / Invesco] to engage RELX's board on an independent human-rights impact assessment of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' law-enforcement and immigration products, and to support such a resolution at the April 2027 AGM if RELX will not act on its own.
   
   Supporting figures, all from RELX's filings: accurintfiles.fineprint.report/about-relx.
   
   [Name]
   [Account or fund, if applicable]

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07The ask

One demand, small enough to grant.

The demand should be something RELX can do on a Tuesday without restructuring the company. Asking a £9.6 billion business to stop selling data to governments is not that. This is.

The first item costs RELX nothing it reports to shareholders. PSDEX data is contributed for free by local police; ICE is one of thousands of subscribers to the platform it lands in. Carving immigration enforcement out of the local-data pool leaves every other product, and every other customer, untouched. It is the smallest change that closes the loophole this site documents.

08Sources

Financial figures are from RELX’s own results release, annual report and Form 20-F for 2025. Segment shares within Risk are RELX’s rounded disclosures; the Government dollar figure and insurance and business-services revenue are our arithmetic on those disclosures and are marked as derived. Contract values are from federal procurement records as reported by the outlets below. Share price and market capitalization are from the London Stock Exchange and are approximate.

1. 01RELX results for the year to 31 December 2025 (12 Feb 2026)
2. 02RELX 2025 Annual Report, market segments section
3. 03RELX Form 20-F for 2025 (risk factors, major shareholders)
4. 04London Stock Exchange, RELX company page (share price, market cap)
5. 05The Intercept: ICE searched LexisNexis database over 1 million times in seven months (2022)
6. 06The Intercept: the leaked 2021 ICE contract
7. 07The Intercept: LexisNexis CBP contract, geolocation and facial recognition (2023)
8. 08The Intercept: ICE license plate data via LexisNexis (2023)
9. 09Biometric Update: ICE seeks expanded LexisNexis access with Palantir integration (Aug 2026)
10. 10404 Media: ICE to pay LexisNexis millions for data to feed to Palantir (Aug 2026)
11. 11LawNext: The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 (Apr 2026)
12. 12LawNext: The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 2 (Apr 2026)
13. 13Poynter: journalists push back against parent companies’ ICE contracts (Mar 2026)
14. 14EPIC and 80+ organizations’ letter to DHS (Feb 2023)
15. 15Nextgov: LexisNexis response to the coalition letter (Feb 2023)
16. 16Inside Higher Ed: law students protest LexisNexis and Westlaw contracts with ICE (2021)
17. 17Washington Square News: NYU Law students protest at LexisNexis HQ (2023)
18. 18Just Futures Law: Castellanos v. LexisNexis
19. 19Borderless Magazine: Cook County sheriff data loophole lets ICE access immigrant info (Aug 2025)
20. 20Georgetown Center on Privacy & Technology: American Dragnet (2022)
21. 21AFSC Investigate: RELX PLC profile (lifetime DHS contract totals)
22. 22The Tyee: Thomson Reuters shareholders reject human-rights review (Jun 2026)
23. 23Reactor: authors’ open letter condemning BookCon over ICE (Feb 2026)
24. 24Inside Higher Ed: University of California reaches new agreement with Elsevier (2021)
25. 25LexisNexis press release: Accurint AI Insights, “over 2,100 agencies” contributing to PSDEX (Jun 2024)
26. 26LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Insurance: “95 of the top 100 US carriers”
27. 27Above the Law: Temple Law students demand school break ties with ICE (Apr 2026)
28. 28Comics Beat: ReedPop statement on ICE (2026)
29. 29The Stranger: Emerald City Comic Con has connections to ICE (Mar 2026)
30. 30OpenSecrets: RELX Group federal lobbying ($3.22m in 2024)
31. 31Sorbonne University unsubscribes from Web of Science
32. 32Northern News Now: Duluth council vote on AVCC renewal (Jan 2026)