Combined Regional Information Systems Project (CRISP)

CRISP is a records-sharing consortium covering Larimer County, Colorado — not a LexisNexis product, but a separate shared dispatch and records system used by police departments including Estes Park and Timnath, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Colorado State University's police department. Three agencies (Fort Collins, Loveland, and Larimer County) fund and run it; the rest connect as members with no ownership stake and no guaranteed continued access — any of the three can cut a member off at any time.

Estes Park's own response to a records request is what put this consortium on our radar. The Town told us plainly that it doesn't own or control the CRISP system, can't produce records the system doesn't let it see, and flagged that CRISP-held records may reach "third party platforms" outside the Town's control. No vendor is named. But that admission describes exactly the kind of structural data-sharing risk this project exists to document: a local agency's records moving somewhere its own city government can't track or retrieve.