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Dakota County Sheriff's Office

MN · Sheriff's Office · 457,710 residents

Confirmed Contributor

The Dakota County Sheriff's Office sends its police records to LexisNexis. Its own AVCC account page, released to FinePrint in October 2026, reads "Contributes to AVCC: Yes" and lists 43,260 incident records and 513,756 911 and dispatch records uploaded, with dispatch records going back to January 2017. The Sheriff's data settings, also released, map 1,343 crime types and 1,080 call types into the LexisNexis system, including sexual assaults of children under 13, juvenile runaways, curfew violations, domestic calls, mental health calls and suicides. Every call type is marked viewable by law enforcement only, which keeps it off the public crime map and leaves it searchable by other AVCC subscribers. The office also contributes to LexisNexis Community Crime Map. LexisNexis named the Sheriff's Office on a January 2026 list of 72 Minnesota agencies contributing data to AVCC. Dakota County has about 458,000 residents and the Sheriff runs the county jail. The office has also released the data-sharing addendum then-Sheriff Tim Leslie signed on March 11, 2019. It commits the Sheriff's Office to contribute its records to the LexisNexis Public Safety Data Exchange and grants LexisNexis a "paid up, irrevocable, worldwide" license to distribute them to other subscribers for use in that database "and all successor databases." Asked for logs showing which outside agencies had searched its records, the county said it has none. The Schedule A order form has not been released.

Contract signals

Database Interface (Schedule A)
○ not in record
AVCC XML Addendum present
● confirmed
Irrevocable license clause
● confirmed
Jail Booking Search & Report
○ not in record
Community Crime Map
● confirmed
BuyCrash (crash data feed)
○ not in record

Technical

RMS vendor
—
CAD vendor
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Data fields shared (known)
Per the agency's own AVCC exports (Oct 16, 2026 MGDPA return): RMS incident records (43,260 uploaded) and CAD calls for service (513,756 uploaded, Jan 2017 to Sep 2026). 1,343 crime types and 1,080 call types mapped, including criminal sexual conduct with victims under 13, juvenile runaways, curfew violations under 16, domestic parent/child and husband/wife, child protection, mental health and suicide calls. All call types and 299 crime types set 'Law Enforcement Only'. Field-level contents of each record not shown.

Sanctuary status

Sanctuary jurisdiction
No
Bypass confirmed
—

Source

Document type
Signed Contract
Discovery method
Vendor Attestation (LexisNexis)
Source document
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Source documents (3)

Dakota County Sheriff's Office (MN) — AVCC LE Data Coverage page and Data Classification exports (MGDPA return, Oct 16, 2026)2026/10

Three files produced by the Dakota County Sheriff's Office under the MGDPA on Oct 16, 2026, from the agency's own AVCC admin account. (1) LE Data Coverage page: 'Contributes to Community Crime Map: Yes' and 'Contributes to AVCC: Yes'. Events: 43,260 records uploaded, last upload Aug 30 2026, types not submitted: Attempted Homicide, Burglary from Motor Vehicle, Shoplifting. CFS/CAD: 513,756 records, contributed range Jan 1 2017 to Sep 1 2026, last upload Sep 2 2026. (2) Data Classification Crime Results, exported 09/03/2026: 1,343 local crime codes mapped to LexisNexis categories; 1,044 'Public and Law Enforcement', 299 'Law Enforcement Only'; 118 carry a '500 Foot Offset / Random Offset' for the public map. Created/updated dates run from 2014-03-11 to 2026-08-30, so the mapping has existed since at least 2014. (3) Data Classification CFS Results, 09/03/2026: 1,080 call types, all 'Law Enforcement Only'. Sensitive types mapped include criminal sexual conduct with victims under 13, juvenile runaways, curfew under 16, domestic parent/child and husband/wife, child protection, mental health, suicide threats/attempts/suicides, and an event type named 'sealed per court order' (Public and Law Enforcement). No column for party role (victim/witness/suspect). Ordinance codes from Burnsville, Farmington, West St. Paul, Hastings and several townships appear in the tables.

Minnesota (statewide) — LexisNexis account manager roster naming 72 agencies as AVCC data contributors, released by Duluth PD (Jan 7, 2026)2026/01

Email chain dated January 7, 2026, released by the Duluth Police Department. Alyssa Baumann, Duluth PD's senior crime and intelligence analyst, asked LexisNexis for a summary of services ahead of a city council presentation on the department's Accurint Virtual Crime Center and TraX subscriptions. Jeremy Bringle, a LexisNexis Risk Solutions strategic account manager, replied within minutes with marketing copy and four attachments, among them a Word document headed 'Minnesota Agencies Contributing Data to AVCC' listing 72 Minnesota law enforcement agencies by name. The bundle also contains the AVCC product brochure and the Accurint TraX brochure. Bringle's covering line describes the roster as the agencies whose data Duluth can see through AVCC, while the attachment itself is headed as a list of contributors. The 72 named agencies span the Twin Cities metro, central Minnesota, and two outliers in St. Louis County. Duluth PD, the recipient, is not on the list, and is separately documented as having signed the non-contributory variant of the AVCC XML Addendum.

Dakota County Sheriff's Office (MN) — Signed AVCC/ACA/Community Crime Map Addendum, contributor form Q3.17.v1 (Mar 11, 2019; MGDPA return Oct 29, 2026)2019/03

Two-page 'Accurint Virtual Crime Center/Accurint Crime Analysis/LexisNexis Community Crime Map Addendum', form code ADDM_ AVCC/ACA/CCM (Q3.17.v1), executed March 11, 2019 by then-Sheriff Tim Leslie for the Dakota County Sheriff's Office, ORI MN0190000. Released Oct 29, 2026 by Data Privacy Officer Jerod Rauk under the MGDPA, copy fees waived. This is the standard contributory form: Sec I.2 obligates the Sheriff's Office to contribute public safety information in exchange for PSDEX access; Sec I.4.a requires submissions 'with reasonable promptness and consistency'; Sec II.1 grants LexisNexis a paid up, irrevocable, worldwide license to distribute the contributions to PSDEX customers 'for use in PSDEX and all successor databases and/or information services provided by LN'. Sec II.5 says a de-identified subset will be public through Community Crime Map 'unless otherwise indicated'; this 2017 form has no initials opt-out line for that subset (added in later Q3.21.v1 forms). The submissions contact (Sec I.4.e) is the Sheriff himself, sheriff@co.dakota.mn.us. Part 2 of the same request, AVCC audit logs of outside agencies querying DCSO data from 12/1/2025 on: the county 'maintains no responsive data'.

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Last researched November 11, 2026