STATE PROFILE: Arizona

# Arizona — LexisNexis / PSDEX State Profile

*Last updated: May 2026*

## The Short Version

Arizona prohibits sanctuary policies and has some of the most visible LexisNexis Community Crime Map penetration in the country. The Phoenix metro area alone has five confirmed CCM agencies, including Phoenix PD — which has one of the strongest government contract attributions in this entire investigation. An Appriss VINE pipeline running through all 15 Arizona county jails adds a second potential data pathway to LexisNexis.

## No Sanctuary

Arizona’s SB 1070 (2010) and subsequent legislation explicitly prohibit sanctuary policies statewide. There are no legal barriers to Arizona law enforcement data reaching federal immigration enforcement.

## The Phoenix Metro CCM Cluster

Five of the five largest cities in Maricopa County use LexisNexis Community Crime Map:

**Phoenix Police Department** — The city’s official crime statistics page states that Community Crime Map is ‘a program operated by LexisNexis through a government contract with the City of Phoenix.’ This language — explicit, governmental, and attributing the relationship to a contract — is the strongest CCM attribution in this database. The relationship has been active since at least January 2019. Phoenix is the fifth-largest city in the United States.

**Peoria Police Department** — The city’s official website attributes CCM to ‘LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ specifically, naming the particular LexisNexis subsidiary that operates PSDEX.

**Chandler, Scottsdale, and Tempe** — All three confirmed CCM users through official city websites or department pages.

For all five, the CCM relationship confirms that crime incident data flows automatically from the department’s records management system to LexisNexis. Whether any of them has a PSDEX data contribution agreement — a separate contract that would make their data searchable by law enforcement subscribers nationally — has not been confirmed.

## Avondale PD — Potential PSDEX Contributor

Avondale Police Department responded to a public records request with a contract package including a base Accurint agreement and a separate Addendum 19-077C. Comparable addenda from other agencies — most clearly, Clear Creek County, Colorado — contain explicit PSDEX contribution language in Section II. If Avondale’s 19-077C has the same structure, Avondale would be confirmed as Arizona’s first documented PSDEX contributor.

## The Arizona VINE Pipeline

Arizona’s statewide victim notification system (VINE) is managed by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC) — not the Attorney General’s office, as in most states. ACJC contracted Appriss in 2021 to connect all 15 county jails and the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADCRR). Maricopa County Jail, where Phoenix PD arrestees are held, feeds into this system.

In Cook County, Illinois, an equivalent Appriss VINE contract was found to contain a ‘Risk Solutions’ clause allowing Appriss to share real-time booking data with LexisNexis. Whether ACJC’s Arizona contract contains the same clause is not known — a public records request to ACJC is a priority.

## FOIA Targets

- Arizona Public Records Law (ARS § 39-121), 10 business days - ACJC (azcjc.gov) — VINE/Appriss contract + any Risk Solutions clause - City of Phoenix — CCM government contract + any AVCC addendum - Avondale PD via MuckRock — retrieve Addendum 19-077C, check Section II for PSDEX language