Take action
What you can do.
Three asks you can make today. Two require an email; the third requires showing up to a public meeting.
Important
The LexisNexis consumer opt-out form does not remove your police-report data from PSDEX. The opt-out applies only to LexisNexis’s consumer products. Police data is held in a separate product tier and is governed by the agency’s contract, not by your consent.
1. FOIA your local department.
Send the request below to your local police department’s public-records officer. Replace bracketed placeholders.
Subject: Public Records Request — LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center Contract
Pursuant to [STATE FOIA LAW], I request the following records regarding your agency’s agreement with LexisNexis Risk Solutions:
1. The fully executed Accurint Virtual Crime Center (AVCC) agreement, including all exhibits, Schedule A, addendums, and amendments. Specifically include the AVCC XML Addendum or PSDEX Addendum that governs data contribution.
2. Any Interface Control Document (ICD) or technical specification that defines the data structure and elements for the automated export of Records Management System (RMS) or Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) data to LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
3. Any Data Translation guides, field-mapping tables, or schemas identifying which specific data fields (e.g., Victim Name, DOB, Witness Phone, Narrative) are included in the automated feed to LexisNexis.
We are not seeking URLs, credentials, network addresses, or encryption keys. We seek only the identity of data fields and legal terms governing their transfer.
2. Ask your council member.
Most data-broker contracts are approved in council consent agendas without independent review of the data-sharing terms. Email your council member or county supervisor:
Dear [Member],
I’m writing about [Department]’s contract with LexisNexis Risk Solutions for the Accurint Virtual Crime Center. The contract may include an AVCC XML Addendum that grants LexisNexis an irrevocable license to use, aggregate, and distribute police records uploaded by [Department], including incident reports involving victims and witnesses.
Could you confirm: (1) whether the council has reviewed the AVCC XML Addendum, not just the Schedule A; (2) whether the contract excludes victim and witness data from the upload; and (3) whether [Department]’s data is accessible to federal agencies including ICE through LexisNexis’s customer base?
I look forward to your response.
3. Use the (limited) opt-out anyway.
The LexisNexis consumer opt-out doesn’t reach police-report data. It does reach the consumer-side products — Accurint Person Search results, mailing-list products, and some marketing pools — that compound the exposure. Filing opt-outs reduces the surface area without solving the core problem.
The form is at lexisnexis.com/privacy. (We don’t link out to LexisNexis here; you can find their privacy page directly.)
Coming next
A FOIA generator that prefills the request above with your local jurisdiction details, drawn from the agencies directory, is in development. Until then, the manual template above is the working version.
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