Santa Ana Police Department

Santa Ana is one of California’s most immigrant-dense cities — roughly 310,000 residents, approximately 90% Latino, with an active Welcoming City policy that limits police cooperation with ICE. Despite those protections, the Santa Ana Police Department is a documented contributor to the Public Safety Data Exchange (PSDEX), a national law enforcement data-sharing network operated by LexisNexis.

The confirmation comes from the Santa Ana City Clerk’s public document portal. A signed agreement — contract N-2023-294 — shows Santa Ana PD joined the Orange County Sheriff’s Department AVCC consortium as a sub-agency. The contract language is explicit: ‘Customer hereby agrees to contribute public safety information.’ The data contributed includes records from the department’s computer-aided dispatch system, records management system, and jail bookings.

Santa Ana also held a separate contract directly with LexisNexis for Accurint for Law Enforcement Plus — an investigative research tool that gives officers access to LexisNexis’s full database of public and commercial records on individuals.

Contract N-2023-294 had an expiration date of July 1, 2024. Whether Santa Ana renewed it is not yet confirmed — a public records request is pending. If renewed, the data pipeline remains active. If not, the city’s contributed data may still be in LexisNexis’s database under the irrevocable license terms of the original agreement.