Brighton Police Department

Brighton is a city of about 40,000 people in Adams County, north of Denver. Its police department representative Frank Acosta served on the CISC Board of Directors — he made the formal motion to accept the consent agenda at the January 2021 CISC board meeting, placing Brighton PD at the governance table for the LexisNexis PSDEX data warehouse in Colorado.

CISC — the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium — confirmed in a public records response that it operates the PSDEX data warehouse on LexisNexis’s behalf. The 124 agencies connected to CISC, 87 of which actively mirror booking and release data, include agencies across the Denver metro area. Brighton PD, as a board member, is almost certainly among the contributing agencies.

Adams County includes a significant immigrant population, particularly in Commerce City and surrounding communities. Colorado has VALE Act sanctuary protections, but the private-company intermediary structure of PSDEX puts this data flow outside the statute’s reach.