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Hermosa Beach Police Department

CA · Municipal Police

Confirmed Contributor

Hermosa Beach Police Department is a confirmed contributor to the LexisNexis Public Safety Data Exchange. City Manager Suja Lowenthal signed the Accurint Virtual Crime Center XML Addendum on January 3, 2019, under ORI CA0019290.

Section I.2 of that addendum commits the department to contribute CAD data, RMS data and offender data to PSDEX. Section II.1 grants LexisNexis an irrevocable, worldwide license to use, adapt, aggregate, publish and distribute that data. Section II.5 provides that LexisNexis retains it. The department joined through a Hawthorne-administered enterprise plan covering six South Bay agencies, at a 2020 cost of $11,556.

Hermosa Beach is the only agency in this database documented to have obtained a written legal review before signing. A city attorney's report walked the council through what Accurint is, what data would move, and where it would end up: incident report notes and narratives, updated automatically whenever the department changes a record in its Mark 43 system. The review told the council that LexisNexis would offset crime map locations to protect victim privacy, and that the data would be shared only with agencies holding ORI numbers. It did not examine whether federal immigration authorities, which also hold ORI numbers, could reach the data. It did not address the California Values Act database guidance the state Attorney General had published to every California police chief three months earlier.

Consortiums (1)

Multi-agency data-sharing consortiums this agency is a member of.

Contract signals

Database Interface (Schedule A)
● confirmed
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
Mark 43 (hosted on Hawthorne PD server)
CAD vendor
SBRPCA regional dispatch (Tiburon/CentralSquare)
Data fields shared (known)
Per AVCC XML Addendum Sec I.2 (executed 2019-01-03): CAD data (calls for service), RMS data (Customer narratives and notes), and Offender data (sex offenders and prolific offenders). Per the city attorney's information report: the data is entered into Mark 43 and transfers automatically to LexisNexis; if HBPD changes anything in its system it automatically updates in the LexisNexis system. Per the April 2020 LexisNexis enterprise quote, the consortium plan includes five interfaces: RMS, CAD, Offender, Crash, LPR. Public subset flows to LexisNexis Community Crime Map (report number, agency, general crime description, approximate location; locations offset at HBPD's request per Addendum Sec I.3.d).

Sanctuary status

Sanctuary jurisdiction
Yes
Bypass confirmed
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Source

Document type
Signed Contract
Discovery method
Other
Source document
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Source documents (3)

LexisNexis — AVCC Enterprise Plan Quote, South Bay Regional Police Consortium, Per-Agency Pricing (Apr 2020)2020/04

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.

Hermosa Beach PD (CA) — AVCC Agreement Package with Executed XML Addendum and City Attorney Legal Review (Jan 2019)2019/01

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.

Hawthorne PD — LexisNexis Agenda Bill (South Bay Police Consortium AVCC)2017/08

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