Lathrop Police Department

Lathrop is a city of about 28,000 people in San Joaquin County — and it is the smallest confirmed contributor to the Public Safety Data Exchange (PSDEX) in this database.

On February 12, 2024, the Lathrop City Council voted to join the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office AVCC consortium. The staff report accompanying that vote described the arrangement explicitly as a ‘Public Safety Data Exchange Consortium’ and spelled out what data would be contributed: records management system data, computer-aided dispatch records, and jail management system data. Lathrop PD agreed to contribute all three. The five-year cost comes to approximately $21,710 total — around $5,000 to $5,600 per year, prorated based on sworn officer count.

Year one was covered by a federal Homeland Security grant, meaning the federal government effectively paid for Lathrop’s initial entry into a system that federal agencies like ICE then pay to access.

Lathrop’s significance is as a lower bound. If a city of 28,000 with a small police department is in this consortium, it strongly suggests that larger San Joaquin County cities — Stockton, Manteca, Tracy, Lodi, and others — are participating as well. The consortium’s stated scope covers ‘all cities within the County,’ though individual confirmation for each city is still pending.