Salem Police Department

We have found no evidence that the Salem Police Department sends records to LexisNexis. No contract, council item or other document ties it to the LexisNexis data exchange. Salem is listed here because FinePrint researched the city's police surveillance tools for a November 2026 report written for local residents.

Salem ended its Flock Safety license plate reader contract on June 30, 2026, with the mayor and police chief citing insufficient protections for the data. The city replaced Flock with eight city-owned Axis cameras that came with OdinEye plate-reading software installed, according to the Boston Globe (Nov. 6, 2026). Salem has no OdinEye contract yet, and the chief says only a few officers have access.

Salem police also use CrimeTracer, a SoundThinking police records network that Massachusetts buys statewide. It pools incident reports, mugshots, warrants and vehicle records from more than 360 agencies, and federal agents, including ICE's investigative arm, could search it until about 2023. Officers wear body cameras funded by state grants, and the city has run council-approved police cameras at four public sites since 2017. Salem has no surveillance-technology ordinance or annual surveillance report, unlike Cambridge, Somerville and Boston. The city reaffirmed its Sanctuary for Peace ordinance in February 2026; it bars sharing records with ICE without consent or a court order but does not address plate-reader data.