Ottawa County Sheriff's Office

The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office holds the master LexisNexis contract for a five-agency consortium in western Michigan. It pays LexisNexis directly for the Accurint Virtual Crime Center and then bills the other departments for their share.

A cost-allocation agreement in a December 2025 Grand Haven council packet names the Sheriff's Office as the sole contract holder, with the Holland and Grand Haven Departments of Public Safety, Grand Valley State University Police, and the Zeeland Police Department buying in. The county pays LexisNexis a base of about $48,000 a year for the Accurint Virtual Crime Center plus crash and citation reporting, and recovers most of it from the partner agencies, split by each department's number of sworn officers. The Accurint fee rises three percent a year.

The agreement confirms the Sheriff's Office runs Accurint for the region. What it does not include is the contribution addendum that would show whether Ottawa County feeds local records into the national Public Safety Data Exchange. The cost-sharing document covers access and billing, not data contribution. A records request to the Sheriff's Office for its executed Accurint contract and addendum would settle that question.