Illinois State Police

The Illinois State Police is a confirmed subscriber to LexisNexis Accurint for Law Enforcement, documented through the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance. As the statewide agency, ISP plays a gateway role in Illinois’ criminal justice data infrastructure — it manages statewide CJIS connectivity and handles crash reporting for state highways and Cook County freeways.

Accurint for Law Enforcement is an investigative access product: it gives ISP officers the ability to search LexisNexis’s database of individual records. Whether ISP has also signed an AVCC data contribution agreement — meaning Illinois State Police data flows into PSDEX and is searchable by federal agencies — is not confirmed. That question is particularly significant given ISP’s statewide reach and its role in a state where the Cook County VINE pipeline is already a confirmed sanctuary bypass.

ISP manages crash reporting through its own state portal and does not use LexisNexis BuyCrash — unlike Texas, where TxDOT routes all crash reports through LexisNexis statewide.