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Manhattan Beach Police Department

CA · Municipal Police

Confirmed Contributor

Manhattan Beach Police Department is a documented subscriber to the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center through a Hawthorne-administered enterprise plan, and one of three cities that jointly own the regional dispatch authority behind it.

A LexisNexis quote dated April 3, 2020 priced the Accurint Virtual Crime Center Enterprise Plan for the South Bay consortium at $100,532.92 a year and set Manhattan Beach's share at $17,795.39. The plan lists five interfaces as included: RMS, CAD, offender, crash and license plate reader. Manhattan Beach co-owns the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority, which dispatches for all six agencies on the contract, and its records sit in the shared system Hawthorne hosts.

Manhattan Beach's own contribution addendum has not been released. The addendum a neighboring member city signed to join the same Hawthorne agreement carries a standing 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 to Manhattan Beach, or to Hawthorne as contract custodian, would settle its status.

A LexisNexis contribution report dated September 2026 settles it. Manhattan Beach is an active contributor to the Accurint Virtual Crime Center: 22,599 incident records and 338,108 calls-for-service records had been uploaded as of September 9, 2026, with the most recent upload that same day. The calls-for-service feed runs back to April 2018. The report also shows the department does not publish to the public Community Crime Map, so its contribution is invisible on LexisNexis's public-facing roster. The department withholds a handful of record types from the feed, including death investigations, domestic disputes, field interviews and traffic stops.

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
○ not in record
BuyCrash (crash data feed)
○ not in record

Technical

RMS vendor
Mark 43 (shared, hosted by Hawthorne PD)
CAD vendor
SBRPCA regional dispatch (Tiburon/CentralSquare)
Data fields shared (known)
Not directly documented for Manhattan Beach. The enterprise plan Manhattan Beach pays into includes five interfaces per the April 2020 LexisNexis quote: RMS, CAD, Offender, Crash, LPR. The AVCC XML Addendum executed by a member city to join the same Hawthorne master agreement specifies CAD (calls for service), RMS (narratives and notes), and Offender (sex offenders and prolific offenders). [2026-10-06 UPDATE] Now directly documented by a LexisNexis agency contribution report (Sources & Documents rec7iPBr7KtyXkjK9). Two live feeds as of Sep 09, 2026: EVENTS, 22,599 records, date range Jan 1965 to Sep 2026, excluding Attempted Homicide, Death Investigation, Theft - Other; CFS/CAD, 338,108 records, date range Apr 2018 to Sep 2026, excluding Accident - Fatality, Domestic Dispute, Field Interview, Harassment, Noise Complaint, Ordinance or Code Violation, Parking Complaint, Recovered Property, Traffic Stop. The report flags Contributes to AVCC: Yes and Contributes to Community Crime Map: No.

Sanctuary status

Sanctuary jurisdiction
Yes
Bypass confirmed
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Source

Document type
Other Public Record
Discovery method
Other
Source document
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Source documents (3)

Manhattan Beach PD (CA) — LexisNexis Agency Contribution Report: AVCC Yes, Community Crime Map No (Sep 2026)2026/09

LexisNexis-generated agency contribution page for Manhattan Beach Police Dept. Header fields: Contributes to Community Crime Map: No. Contributes to AVCC: Yes. Two feeds documented. EVENTS: 22,599 records uploaded, contributed date range Jan 01, 1965 to Sep 08, 2026, last upload Sep 09, 2026; types not submitted by agency: Attempted Homicide, Death Investigation, Theft - Other. CFS/CAD: 338,108 records uploaded, contributed date range Apr 23, 2018 to Sep 09, 2026, last upload Sep 09, 2026; types not submitted: Accident - Fatality, Domestic Dispute, Field Interview, Harassment, Noise Complaint, Ordinance or Code Violation, Parking Complaint, Recovered Property, Traffic Stop. Website listed: http://www.citymb.info/departments/police-department

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.

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 October 6, 2026