CISC Member Agency Addendum and Joinder — Clear Creek County (Feb 2024)

The signed CISC Member Agency Addendum and Joinder for Clear Creek County, Colorado, executed February 28, 2024 by Lt. David Straley of the Sheriff's Office. This is the document an agency signs to join the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium's LexisNexis arrangement, and it lays out in detail what a member agency agrees to.

By signing, the agency becomes a party to the LexisNexis Master Terms and agrees to contribute its public safety information — its "Customer Data Contribution" (Section II.2) — and grants LexisNexis a paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use, adapt, aggregate, and distribute that data (Section III.1). The contributed data is held in the "CISC Data Warehouse," which the addendum describes as "a PSDEX private container database provided by LN" — LexisNexis's Public Safety Data Exchange.

What makes this document notable is its three-tier sharing structure with initial-to-opt-in boxes — the first time we have seen an agreement that lets an agency initial to choose whether its data leaves the consortium or stays among consortium members. Sharing within CISC member agencies is automatic. Two additional tiers must be opted into by initialing: (b) sharing with PSDEX customers outside the CISC membership — that is, law enforcement agencies nationwide — and (c) sharing a de-identified subset (crime type, date and time, and the area of the incident) with third parties that publish public crime maps. Clear Creek initialed tier (c) ("DWS") but left tier (b) un-initialed.

The addendum also incorporates the FBI CJIS Security Policy and Security Addendum (Exhibit A), requires the agency to designate a data-submission contact, and disclaims LexisNexis liability for the accuracy of the data. It is bundled with the underlying 2014 Intergovernmental Agreement that created CISC as a separate legal entity governed by an eleven-member board.