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Maplewood Police Department
MN · 41,608 residents
The Maplewood Police Department is one of the most thoroughly documented PSDEX contributors in this database — because the signed contract is a matter of public record and was obtained through a prior records request.
The contract, signed January 3, 2025 by Maplewood’s City Manager, includes the full AVCC XML Addendum: a five-page agreement in which Maplewood agrees to contribute its police data to LexisNexis and grants the company a ‘paid up, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license’ to distribute that data to PSDEX customers. The data contributed covers crime reports, field investigations, citations, mugshots, and arrest records from Maplewood’s records management system. The annual cost is $6,000.
One detail in the contract is worth highlighting: Maplewood’s City Manager initialed an optional provision opting out of sharing a de-identified, stripped-down subset of its data for public crime mapping. That opt-out is real — but it applies only to the public-facing crime map feed. The core PSDEX contribution, which goes to law enforcement subscribers including federal agencies, was not opted out of. Maplewood remains a full contributor to the PSDEX investigative database.
Maplewood sits in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Minnesota was officially designated a sanctuary state by the Department of Homeland Security in May 2025. Ramsey County complied with fewer than 10% of ICE detainer requests — among the most protective counties in the state. Despite those protections, Maplewood’s contract grants LexisNexis an irrevocable license to share its police data with PSDEX subscribers. ICE holds its own federal subscription to LexisNexis products. The data flows around the sanctuary protections through a private intermediary.
Contract signals
- Database Interface (Schedule A)
- ● confirmed
- AVCC XML Addendum present
- ● confirmed
- Irrevocable license clause
- ● confirmed
- Jail Booking Search & Report
- ● confirmed
- Community Crime Map
- ○ not in record
- BuyCrash (crash data feed)
- ○ not in record
Technical
- RMS vendor
- —
- CAD vendor
- —
- Data fields shared (known)
- RMS data, CAD data. Irrevocable license language present. De-identification opt-in present (check for initials).
Sanctuary status
- Sanctuary jurisdiction
- No
- Bypass confirmed
- —
Source
- Document type
- FOIA Return
- Discovery method
- —
- Source document
- View document →
Source documents (1)
Email chain dated January 7, 2026, released by the Duluth Police Department. Alyssa Baumann, Duluth PD's senior crime and intelligence analyst, asked LexisNexis for a summary of services ahead of a city council presentation on the department's Accurint Virtual Crime Center and TraX subscriptions. Jeremy Bringle, a LexisNexis Risk Solutions strategic account manager, replied within minutes with marketing copy and four attachments, among them a Word document headed 'Minnesota Agencies Contributing Data to AVCC' listing 72 Minnesota law enforcement agencies by name. The bundle also contains the AVCC product brochure and the Accurint TraX brochure. Bringle's covering line describes the roster as the agencies whose data Duluth can see through AVCC, while the attachment itself is headed as a list of contributors. The 72 named agencies span the Twin Cities metro, central Minnesota, and two outliers in St. Louis County. Duluth PD, the recipient, is not on the list, and is separately documented as having signed the non-contributory variant of the AVCC XML Addendum.
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