Maplewood Police Department

The Maplewood Police Department answered the May 11, 2026 Data Practices Act request on June 1, 2026, six days after LexisNexis advised the department that documents in the company's possession were not producible and that its intellectual property should be redacted from anything the department did hold. Maplewood stated it has no responsive records in any of the three categories requested. It does not possess an interface control document or technical implementation guide covering export of CAD or RMS data to LexisNexis. It does not possess data translation guides, field-mapping tables or schemas. It does not possess records identifying which categories of information are included in any automated transfer to LexisNexis platforms. The department noted that it contracts with the Ramsey County Emergency Communications Center for CAD and has no access to CAD-export documentation, and suggested responsive records may sit with Ramsey County ECC, LexisNexis, or another third-party vendor. Signed by Administrative Lieutenant Michael J. Dugas, who was copied on the May 19 email forwarding this request to LexisNexis.

Email from Brian Burson, Central Regional Account Manager for State and Local Government / Public Safety at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, to Lt. Michael Hoemke of the Maplewood Police Department, concerning how Maplewood should handle a records request touching LexisNexis material. Burson is the same account manager named on Maplewood's 2025 AVCC Schedule A and on the April 2026 invoice. Burson makes three assertions. First, that LexisNexis cannot advise a customer on how to comply with its own legal obligations. Second, that documents held by LexisNexis rather than by the agency are "not producible by LexisNexis since LexisNexis would not be covered under the standard public records request." Third, that where the agency holds documents LexisNexis drafted or that contain LexisNexis intellectual property, the company would want confidential material redacted, and that "would need to be determined by LexisNexis technical." The second and third assertions sit uneasily with Minnesota law. Minn. Stat. Sec. 13.05, subd. 11 subjects a private contractor performing a government function to chapter 13 as if it were a government entity, and subd. 11(b) allows public data requests to go to the contractor precisely when the data are not available from the agency. Separately, the determination of whether data qualify as trade secret information under Sec. 13.37 belongs to the government entity, not to the vendor asserting the claim. Detailed analysis is in Analyst Notes. The document's significance is not the legal argument itself but that it exists. It records a surveillance vendor communicating with a police department about the scope of that department's response to a public records request concerning the vendor. No date is visible on the email as supplied.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions invoice to the Maplewood Police Department covering April 2026. Two line items, both for service period 2026/04/01 to 2026/04/30: AVCC Annual Subscription Fee $525.00 and Accurint TraX Annual Subscription Fee $175.00. Net total $700.00, no tax. Annualizes to $8,400. The invoice matters less for the amount than for what it proves about the contract. Maplewood's signed Schedule A prices AVCC at $6,000/yr (Sec 2.1) and Accurint TraX at $2,000/yr (Sec 2.6), each 'to be invoiced in equal monthly installments,' and Sec 2.7 increases every fee in the agreement by 5.00% at the end of each Year. Applying that increase once yields $6,300 and $2,100, which is $525 and $175 per month. The invoice matches the escalator exactly, confirming both that the fees compound and that the Schedule A auto-renewed into a second term on 1/1/2026 with no new signature. Because Maplewood is a council-manager city whose City Manager signed the agreement under his own authority, the escalating cost never returns to a public vote. Invoice metadata: Invoice No. 1100300284; invoice date 4/30/2026; payment due 5/30/2026; Account No. 6712463 (matches Billgroup ACC-6712463 on the Schedule A); LN Representative Brian Burson (matches the Schedule A Account Manager); Billing Contact Gina Kuchenmeister; Sold-to Contact Michael Hoemke. Remit-to: LexisNexis Risk Data Management LLC, 28330 Network Place, Chicago, IL 60673-1283.

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.