Sandy Springs Police Department

Sandy Springs Police Department is standing up the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center with a $1.6 million state grant, building a regional platform for multiple agencies to share crime data, jail booking data, crime mapping, and analytics (Rough Draft Atlanta, July 2023). The EFF Atlas of Surveillance separately confirms the department's AVCC use, and city figures put the ongoing AVCC cost near $127,655 per year.

Sandy Springs is a Fulton County city of about 110,000 in the northern Atlanta suburbs and a notable contracted-services city. When it incorporated in 2005 it outsourced most municipal services to private companies, so the data governance around its LexisNexis relationship is worth close examination.

Georgia has no sanctuary policies. What the record does not yet show is the signed AVCC XML Addendum that would confirm whether Sandy Springs feeds the national Public Safety Data Exchange, so this is a strong signal rather than a confirmed contribution. Georgia's Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. 50-18-70) requires a response within three business days, and a request for the AVCC contract and addendum would settle the question.