STATE PROFILE: Florida

# Florida — LexisNexis / PSDEX State Profile

*Last updated: May 2026*

## The Short Version

Florida prohibits sanctuary policies by state law. Its law enforcement agencies participate in LexisNexis’s PSDEX through a statewide consortium model led by the Miami Beach Police Department. A single public records request to Miami Beach PD would map every Florida PSDEX participant in one document.

## No Sanctuary, Full Cooperation

Florida’s SB 168 (2019) explicitly bans sanctuary policies and requires all law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE detainer requests. There is no sanctuary bypass to document in Florida — the data flows openly and legally to federal immigration enforcement. The significance of Florida’s PSDEX participation is its scale and the consortium structure that makes it largely invisible to the public.

## The Florida Consortium Model

Miami Beach Police Department holds the master LexisNexis AVCC contract for Florida, serving as the Lead Contract Agency (LCA). Florida law enforcement agencies that want to join PSDEX sign an interagency agreement with Miami Beach PD — not directly with LexisNexis. The agreement package includes the Florida-specific AVCC addendum, the FDLE Interagency Agreement, and a Schedule A listing the terms of data contribution.

This structure means: 1. Miami Beach PD has a complete list of every Florida PSDEX participant. 2. A single public records request to Miami Beach PD — asking for all interagency agreements it has executed as lead contract agency — would map Florida’s PSDEX participation comprehensively. 3. Individual agencies joined without independent council votes, making their participation largely invisible in local records.

## Confirmed Participants

**Miami Beach Police Department** — Lead Contract Agency, confirmed through a MuckRock FOIA response. Its response stated explicitly: ‘The Miami Beach Police Department is the Lead Contract Agency in Florida for the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center and has entered into Information Sharing Agreements with other criminal justice agencies in the state.’

**Fort Myers Police Department** — Confirmed PSDEX contributor. Fort Myers City Council approved the interagency agreement on September 21, 2020. The council resolution names both AVCC and PSDEX explicitly and sets the annual subscription at $19,950.

**Lee County Sheriff’s Office** — Confirmed contributor, named in the Fort Myers council staff report as already participating as of 2020.

**Cape Coral Police Department** — Confirmed contributor through the Florida statewide arrangement.

## Additional Agencies (Atlas of Surveillance)

The EFF’s Atlas of Surveillance lists several additional Florida agencies as AVCC users, sourced from Miami Beach PD as of March 2024: Tallahassee PD, Clearwater PD, Osceola County SO, Lake County SO, and Lee County Port Authority PD. These agencies appear to be Florida consortium members, but individual contract documents have not been obtained.

## Other LexisNexis Products

**Tampa PD** uses Community Crime Map — confirmed through the city’s official website. **Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office** uses LexisNexis’s Desk Officer Reporting System (DORS) for online civilian crime reports — confirmed through an October 2024 OFFICER Magazine profile of Sheriff Chad Chronister.

## The Priority FOIA

Filing a public records request to Miami Beach PD under Florida’s Public Records Law (Ch. 119, F.S.) asking for all interagency agreements executed as Lead Contract Agency would be the single most productive FOIA action for this state. Florida’s public records law has no specific deadline but requires prompt response.