Mesa County Sheriff's Office

Mesa County Sheriff’s Office has two independent lines of confirmation placing it at the center of LexisNexis’s PSDEX network in Colorado — making it one of the most strongly evidenced agencies in this database that has not yet produced a signed contract document.

First, former Mesa County Sheriff Matt Lewis served on the CISC Board of Directors, confirmed through January 2021 board meeting minutes. CISC operates the LexisNexis PSDEX data warehouse for Colorado. Second — and more directly — Matt Lewis is named on LexisNexis’s own PSDEX Advisory Committee page on the LexisNexis Special Services website. The PSDEX Advisory Committee is the national governance body for the PSDEX system itself. A sitting county sheriff serving on that committee is as close to a self-confirmation of active participation as exists short of a signed contract.

Mesa County SO serves the Grand Junction area in western Colorado, about 155,000 residents. Colorado has VALE Act sanctuary protections, but neither Mesa County nor Grand Junction has local sanctuary policies.