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Hawthorne Police Department
CA · Municipal Police · 88,083 residents
Hawthorne Police Department is a confirmed contributor to the LexisNexis Public Safety Data Exchange and the contractual hub through which five neighboring South Bay agencies reach it.
On August 22, 2017, the Hawthorne City Council authorized the city manager to contract with LexisNexis for the Accurint Virtual Crime Center on behalf of member cities of the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority. The agenda bill states that because the new software gives investigators access to law enforcement sensitive data, Hawthorne's IT department would partner with LexisNexis engineers to provide access to the region's police records and dispatch data. Hawthorne hosts the shared Mark 43 records system and the regional dispatch system, so that connection carries data from every agency on the network. First-year cost for the group was $81,955, with Hawthorne paying $16,031 and billing partner cities a 15 percent administrative fee on top of their shares.
A LexisNexis quote dated April 3, 2020 priced the same enterprise plan at $100,532.92 a year across six agencies and listed five interfaces as included: RMS, CAD, offender, crash and license plate reader. Hawthorne's own contribution addendum has not been released. The addendum a member city signed to join Hawthorne's master agreement carries the standard obligation to contribute calls for service, incident narratives and offender records to the national exchange, along with an irrevocable license that survives cancellation. A records request for Hawthorne's executed agreement and addendum remains the open item.
Consortiums (1)
Multi-agency data-sharing consortiums this agency is a member of.
Contract signals
- Database Interface (Schedule A)
- ● confirmed
- AVCC XML Addendum present
- ○ not in record
- Irrevocable license clause
- ○ not in record
- Jail Booking Search & Report
- ○ not in record
- Community Crime Map
- ● confirmed
- BuyCrash (crash data feed)
- ○ not in record
Technical
- RMS vendor
- Tiburon/CentralSquare + Mark43 RMS (regional host for shared public safety network)
- CAD vendor
- Tiburon CAD via SBRPCA (replacement CAD ~2025)
- Data fields shared (known)
- Per the April 2020 LexisNexis enterprise quote, the AVCC Enterprise Plan includes five interfaces: RMS, CAD, Offender, Crash, LPR. Per the 2017 Hawthorne City Council agenda bill: the new software requires access to "the current Police Records and Dispatch Data (RMS/CAD)" and "Hawthorne ITS will need to provide and partner with LexisNexis engineers in order to provide data access" for all participating cities. Hawthorne hosts the shared Mark 43 RMS and the regional CAD, so the interface carries records for every agency on the network. The AVCC XML Addendum executed by Hermosa Beach to join Hawthorne's master agreement specifies the contributed categories as CAD (calls for service), RMS (narratives and notes), and Offender (sex offenders and prolific offenders).
Sanctuary status
- Sanctuary jurisdiction
- Yes
- Controlling policy
- CA SB54 / California Values Act (state law)
- Bypass confirmed
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Source documents (3)
Written quote from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Account Manager Erica Smith to Chief Michael Ishii of the Hawthorne Police Department, dated April 3, 2020, pricing the Accurint Virtual Crime Center Enterprise Plan for what LexisNexis calls the South Bay Regional Police Consortium. Enterprise total is $100,532.92 a year with a stated 7 percent annual increase. The plan carries unlimited IDs and usage and bundles Accurint LE and Accurint LE+, the Community Crime Map, and unlimited training at no separate charge. One line item lists the interfaces as included: RMS, CAD, Offender, Crash, LPR. The quote breaks cost out by agency for 2020: El Segundo $17,795.38, Gardena $17,795.38, Hawthorne $17,795.38, Manhattan Beach $17,795.39, Culver City $17,795.39, Hermosa Beach $11,556.00. Those six cities are the membership of the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority. Released under CPRA request 2103-001872.
Complete five-document package for Hermosa Beach PD's entry into the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center, obtained through a Hawthorne CPRA. Contains the executed AVCC XML Addendum (ORI CA0019290, signed by City Manager Suja Lowenthal on January 3, 2019) establishing Confirmed Contributor status, plus something no other agency file in this database contains: a substantive written legal review performed before signing. Contents: (1) HBPD memo of 12/27/2018 from Lt. Landon Phillips to City Manager Suja Lowenthal recommending the purchase, noting AVCC replaced Command Central Analytics and cost $10,800 plus a 15% administrative fee to Hawthorne PD, $12,420 total. (2) Information report by Attorney Jane Abzug of the City Attorney's office describing the product, the data categories, the license terms, the Community Crime Map, and a separate Crossroads/LexisNexis e-commerce proposal on which she framed an explicit policy choice for the council. (3) LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government Application & Agreement, signed. (4) Non-FCRA Permissible Use Certification, signed, certifying access to full SSNs and driver's license numbers for HBPD detectives, analysts, investigators and command staff. (5) The AVCC XML Addendum itself, the standard variant carrying the Section I.2 contribution obligation and Section II.1 irrevocable worldwide license. The package also documents the regional architecture: HBPD's records live in a Mark 43 system hosted on Hawthorne PD's server, and HBPD joined Hawthorne's master LexisNexis agreement rather than contracting directly.
City of Hawthorne City Council Agenda Bill, Item No. 8, for the meeting of August 22, 2017. Originating department: Police Department. City Manager Arnold Shadbehr, Chief of Police Robert Fager. The item asks the council to let Hawthorne act as contractual hub on behalf of the member cities of the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority for a collaborative purchase of the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center. It is the authorizing document for the six-agency consortium arrangement. Three things it establishes. First, what changed: the cities already held individual Accurint contracts for public records searching, and the new bundle added access to police records, which required a live connection to the region's shared records and dispatch systems. Second, who built that connection: Hawthorne's IT department, partnering with LexisNexis engineers, maintaining it for all cities. Third, the money: $81,955 in the first year, Hawthorne's share $16,031 from its existing ITS budget, a 15 percent discount from LexisNexis for consolidating to one contract, and an administrative fee charged by Hawthorne to the other cities. Hawthorne's prior contract was roughly $12,000 a year for six licenses; the new one gave every sworn officer a login. The bill also records that no public notice was required for the item.
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Last researched September 14, 2026