Greensboro Police Department

The Greensboro Police Department in North Carolina uses two separate LexisNexis products, which is worth understanding because they do different things.

The first is the Community Crime Map, launched in July 2022. This is a publicly accessible website where residents can view recent crime activity in their neighborhood. Behind the scenes, it works by automatically syncing data from Greensboro PD’s internal records management system to LexisNexis on an ongoing basis. That sync means Greensboro crime incident data is continuously flowing into LexisNexis infrastructure.

The second is Accurint for Law Enforcement, confirmed through the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance database. This is a separate investigative tool that gives Greensboro PD officers access to LexisNexis’s database of public and commercial records on individuals — address history, relatives, associates, vehicle registrations, and more. It is a research tool for investigators, not a public-facing product.

Whether Greensboro also has a signed data contribution agreement with PSDEX — which would mean Greensboro crime records could be searched by other agencies nationwide, including federal ones — has not been confirmed. The Community Crime Map relationship is a strong signal that a PSDEX contribution agreement may exist, but the two are separate contracts and one does not automatically mean the other. A public records request is pending to determine if a PSDEX addendum exists. North Carolina has no statewide sanctuary law.