Providence Police Department

The Providence Police Department is documented in the EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance as conducting 625 searches using LexisNexis’s Accurint investigative platform. That number — a specific count rather than just a vendor name — suggests the data comes from a departmental report or audit that tracked search volume, which is a more granular confirmation than a simple vendor disclosure.

ProvidenceProvidence is Rhode Island’s capital and largest city, with about 190,000 residents. It sits alongside the Rhode Island State Police Fusion Center and the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office, both of which are also confirmed LexisNexis users in this database. Rhode Island’s small geography and concentrated law enforcement structure means these agencies likely operate within overlapping data environments.

Accurint for Law Enforcement gives Providence PD officers the ability to search LexisNexis’s database of records on individuals. Whether Providence PD also has an AVCC data contribution agreement — meaning its crime records flow into PSDEX — has not been confirmed. Rhode Island has no statewide sanctuary law.