South Bay Police Consortium

Written quote from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Account Manager Erica Smith to Chief Michael Ishii of the Hawthorne Police Department, dated April 3, 2020, pricing the Accurint Virtual Crime Center Enterprise Plan for what LexisNexis calls the South Bay Regional Police Consortium. Enterprise total is $100,532.92 a year with a stated 7 percent annual increase. The plan carries unlimited IDs and usage and bundles Accurint LE and Accurint LE+, the Community Crime Map, and unlimited training at no separate charge. One line item lists the interfaces as included: RMS, CAD, Offender, Crash, LPR. The quote breaks cost out by agency for 2020: El Segundo $17,795.38, Gardena $17,795.38, Hawthorne $17,795.38, Manhattan Beach $17,795.39, Culver City $17,795.39, Hermosa Beach $11,556.00. Those six cities are the membership of the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority. Released under CPRA request 2103-001872.

Complete five-document package for Hermosa Beach PD's entry into the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center, obtained through a Hawthorne CPRA. Contains the executed AVCC XML Addendum (ORI CA0019290, signed by City Manager Suja Lowenthal on January 3, 2019) establishing Confirmed Contributor status, plus something no other agency file in this database contains: a substantive written legal review performed before signing. Contents: (1) HBPD memo of 12/27/2018 from Lt. Landon Phillips to City Manager Suja Lowenthal recommending the purchase, noting AVCC replaced Command Central Analytics and cost $10,800 plus a 15% administrative fee to Hawthorne PD, $12,420 total. (2) Information report by Attorney Jane Abzug of the City Attorney's office describing the product, the data categories, the license terms, the Community Crime Map, and a separate Crossroads/LexisNexis e-commerce proposal on which she framed an explicit policy choice for the council. (3) LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government Application & Agreement, signed. (4) Non-FCRA Permissible Use Certification, signed, certifying access to full SSNs and driver's license numbers for HBPD detectives, analysts, investigators and command staff. (5) The AVCC XML Addendum itself, the standard variant carrying the Section I.2 contribution obligation and Section II.1 irrevocable worldwide license. The package also documents the regional architecture: HBPD's records live in a Mark 43 system hosted on Hawthorne PD's server, and HBPD joined Hawthorne's master LexisNexis agreement rather than contracting directly.

City of Hawthorne City Council Agenda Bill, Item No. 8, for the meeting of August 22, 2017. Originating department: Police Department. City Manager Arnold Shadbehr, Chief of Police Robert Fager. The item asks the council to let Hawthorne act as contractual hub on behalf of the member cities of the South Bay Regional Public Communications Authority for a collaborative purchase of the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center. It is the authorizing document for the six-agency consortium arrangement. Three things it establishes. First, what changed: the cities already held individual Accurint contracts for public records searching, and the new bundle added access to police records, which required a live connection to the region's shared records and dispatch systems. Second, who built that connection: Hawthorne's IT department, partnering with LexisNexis engineers, maintaining it for all cities. Third, the money: $81,955 in the first year, Hawthorne's share $16,031 from its existing ITS budget, a 15 percent discount from LexisNexis for consolidating to one contract, and an administrative fee charged by Hawthorne to the other cities. Hawthorne's prior contract was roughly $12,000 a year for six licenses; the new one gave every sworn officer a login. The bill also records that no public notice was required for the item.