Boston Regional Intelligence Center

The Boston Regional Intelligence Center — the fusion center serving Greater Boston and eastern Massachusetts — uses LexisNexis Accurint, confirmed through the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance. The BRIC is a joint operation of the Boston Police Department, Massachusetts State Police, and federal partners including the FBI, and serves as the regional intelligence hub for law enforcement across eastern Massachusetts.

Fusion centers like BRIC aggregate data from many contributing agencies and run analytical queries against investigative databases. An Accurint subscription at the fusion center level means that BRIC analysts can run records searches on individuals drawn from LexisNexis’s full database, including data contributed by PSDEX members across the country. The data flowing from local agencies in other states into PSDEX effectively becomes accessible to BRIC through this subscription.

Massachusetts has sanctuary protections at both the state and city levels. Boston’s Trust Act limits police cooperation with ICE. Whether BRIC’s Accurint access includes a data contribution agreement — meaning Massachusetts law enforcement data flows back into PSDEX — has not been confirmed. A public records request to the Massachusetts Public Safety Division for the full Accurint contract would clarify the scope.