Phoenix Police Department

The Phoenix Police Department has two documented connections to LexisNexis — one confirmed, one indirect and unverified.

The confirmed connection is the Community Crime Map. Phoenix's official crime statistics page states: 'Communitycrimemap.com is a program operated by LexisNexis through a government contract with the City of Phoenix.' This language has been on the site since at least 2019. Community Crime Map automatically pulls incident data from Phoenix PD's records management system and feeds it into LexisNexis infrastructure. Phoenix is one of the largest agencies in the country to use this product — it serves a city of 1.6 million people, the fifth-largest in the US.

What this means for data flow: Phoenix PD crime incident records move automatically from the department's internal records system to LexisNexis on an ongoing basis. Whether Phoenix also has a signed agreement to contribute that data to the Public Safety Data Exchange (PSDEX) — the contributory database that federal agencies like ICE can search — is not yet confirmed. Community Crime Map and PSDEX are different products; a separate contract addendum would be required for PSDEX contribution.

The indirect connection runs through the Maricopa County jail system. When Phoenix PD arrests someone who is detained, they go to Maricopa County Jail. In 2021, the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission contracted with Appriss to build a statewide victim notification system (VINE) connecting all 15 Arizona county jails and the state prison system. If Arizona's contract with Appriss includes the same data-sharing clause found in Cook County, Illinois — which allows Appriss to share real-time jail booking data with LexisNexis — then Phoenix arrest data would flow through a second pipeline to LexisNexis. Whether that clause exists in Arizona's contract is not yet known.

Arizona has no sanctuary policies. There are no legal barriers to any of this data reaching federal immigration enforcement.