Agency record
Sacramento County Sheriff's Office
CA · 1,551,235 residents
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is one of the clearest cases in California of data flowing to LexisNexis on an automated, ongoing basis. The sheriff’s own website states it plainly: ‘The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office contracts with LexisNexis to provide crime reporting, community awareness, and data transparency to the public. The Sheriff’s Office uploads completed crime reports to LexisNexis on a daily basis.’
Beyond the daily crime report upload, Sacramento County SO is believed to be the lead agency for the Central Valley Information Sharing System (CVISS) — a regional network that connects law enforcement agencies across the Sacramento Valley and Central Valley. CVISS originally ran on an IBM software platform called COPLINK, but in 2024 it transitioned to LexisNexis’s Accurint Virtual Crime Center. That transition, confirmed when Elk Grove PD’s City Council voted to approve the change in July 2024, means the participating agencies — originally 13 founding members including Sacramento PD, Placer County SO, and multiple Sacramento-area cities — are now contributing their data to LexisNexis’s PSDEX network.
As the likely lead agency holding the master contract, Sacramento County SO is the hub through which CVISS member agencies’ data flows to LexisNexis. California’s SB54 sanctuary law applies, but it does not restrict data sharing with private companies. A public records request for the full AVCC contract and CVISS member list is a high priority.
Consortiums (1)
Multi-agency data-sharing consortiums this agency is a member of.
Contract signals
- Database Interface (Schedule A)
- ● confirmed
- AVCC XML Addendum present
- ○ not in record
- Irrevocable license clause
- ○ not in record
- Jail Booking Search & Report
- ● confirmed
- Community Crime Map
- ● confirmed
- BuyCrash (crash data feed)
- ○ not in record
Technical
- RMS vendor
- —
- CAD vendor
- —
- Data fields shared (known)
- —
Sanctuary status
- Sanctuary jurisdiction
- No
- Bypass confirmed
- —
Source
- Document type
- Signed Contract
- Discovery method
- Consortium MOU
Source documents (2)
Executed (signed) Cost Share Agreement between the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department (Fiscal Agent) and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office (Member Agency), dated 1 April 2019, signed by Sheriff Scott R. Jones (Sacramento) and Sheriff John D'Agostini (El Dorado). This is the financial/participation instrument tied to the CVISS MOU. CRITICAL: it explicitly conditions CVISS participation on contributing data — 'To participate in CVISS, agencies agree to contribute data from their Records Management System (RMS)' (Sec 3.2) and, for jail-operating agencies, 'contribute data from their Jail Management System (JMS)' (Sec 3.3). Identifies LexisNexis Risk Solutions (1000 Alderman Drive, Alpharetta, GA 30005) as owner/developer of AVCC. Cost allocated by share of authorized sworn officers (FTE). El Dorado annual maintenance ≈ $14,140. Includes billing-detail spreadsheet (file C) listing every member agency's authorized sworn count and FY18/19–FY20/21 estimated costs (consortium total ≈ $285,900–$318,007).
28-page Memorandum of Understanding establishing the Central Valley Information Sharing System (CVISS), updated 01/22/2019, obtained as part of the El Dorado County Sheriff's executed contract file (county agreement 19-0647). Names all 22 Original Member Agencies and contains an individual signature page for each. The MOU is the governance instrument; the companion Cost Share Agreement (separate record) ties participation to AVCC and data contribution. Member Agencies retain custodianship of their data (Sec 5.1) and must comply with 28 CFR Part 23 (Sec 5.2). The Board sets a minimum number of data sets each agency must provide to remain a member (Sec 4.2). Fiscal Agent = Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. 22 signatories: Auburn PD, Citrus Heights PD, Davis PD, El Dorado Probation Dept, El Dorado County Sheriff, Elk Grove PD, Folsom PD, Galt PD, Lincoln PD, Placer County Sheriff, Placerville PD, Rocklin PD, Roseville PD (Chief + City Manager), Sacramento DA, Sacramento Probation Dept, Sacramento County Sheriff, Sacramento PD, South Lake Tahoe PD, West Sacramento PD, Winters PD, Woodland PD, Yolo County Sheriff. Spans Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, and El Dorado counties.
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Last researched June 3, 2026