Elk Grove Police Department

The Elk Grove Police Department joined the Central Valley Information Sharing System (CVISS) consortium for LexisNexis’s Accurint Virtual Crime Center, confirmed by a City Council vote on July 24, 2024. The council agenda item describes the arrangement plainly: ‘Agencies enter into this cost sharing agreement to participate in the information-sharing system known as Accurint Virtual Crime Center (AVCC) via the CVISS Consortium.’

Elk Grove pays approximately $15,281 per year for its participation. The data it contributes is broad: crime reports from its records management system, field investigations, citations, mugshots, and arrest reports. All of that flows into LexisNexis’s PSDEX database, where it is accessible to other law enforcement agencies — and to federal agencies with PSDEX subscriptions.

Elk Grove’s significance in this investigation goes beyond its own data. As one of the 13 original CVISS founding agencies from 2009, it confirms that the consortium’s transition from its old software platform (IBM COPLINK) to LexisNexis AVCC was completed and voted on at the city level. That means the same transition almost certainly applies to the other 12 CVISS founding agencies — including Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, Sacramento PD, Placer County SO, Yolo County SO, and several Sacramento-area cities — though individual confirmation is still pending for each. California’s SB54 sanctuary law applies throughout the region.