Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

The Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management received an enterprise license for LexisNexis’s Accurint Virtual Crime Center through its membership in the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium, confirmed through the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance (August 2022).

A state homeland security division’s participation in PSDEX is worth examining beyond the law enforcement context. DHSEM manages emergency response coordination, critical infrastructure protection, and preparedness planning across Colorado. Its AVCC access means DHSEM analysts can query PSDEX data from thousands of contributing agencies nationwide — criminal records, arrest data, and booking information — as part of what is nominally an emergency management function.

Colorado’s VALE Act applies. The federal Homeland Security context adds another potential pathway for data to reach federal immigration enforcement outside the normal law enforcement channel: DHSEM coordinates with FEMA and DHS, and its AVCC access could facilitate data sharing in that federal relationship.