Document Library
Primary sources. Signed contracts, FOIA returns, procurement records, and policy documents. Each entry links to the underlying source.
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- Contributing Agency Agreements
- Signed contracts, Schedule A addenda, and AVCC XML Addendums in which a law enforcement agency formally agrees to contribute data to PSDEX. These contain the specific legal language — irrevocable licenses, data contribution obligations — that confirm an agency is feeding data to LexisNexis. Start here.
- Non-Contributing Agency Agreements
- Documents for agencies that have explicitly opted out or hold read-only access — including "NO DATA CONTRIBUTIONS" addenda and contracts limited to querying only. Important context for understanding who resisted the system and how.
- Public Safety Policies
- Department-level policies on data sharing, surveillance, and LexisNexis use. Useful for identifying agencies whose published policies may conflict with their documented data-sharing behavior — a key signal of sanctuary bypass.
- Audit Records
- Internal records of who accessed PSDEX data and how. Multiple public records requests indicate that agencies cannot audit this once data enters the system — which is why this tab may remain empty.
- City Council Meetings
- City and county council packets, votes, and resolutions approving or discussing LexisNexis contracts. Often the only public record of when and how a jurisdiction entered the PSDEX network.
- Law Enforcement Consortiums
- Documents from AVCC/PSDEX consortium bodies — governance minutes, member-agency joinder agreements, and inter-agency MOUs. Consortiums are regional networks where a lead agency holds the master contract and smaller agencies join through joinder agreements. These records often name member agencies not discoverable any other way.
- Inter-Agency MOUs
- Memoranda of Understanding, joinder agreements, and inter-agency contracts that define the legal structure of data sharing between agencies and consortiums. These establish what flows where and under what terms.
- Integrations with Vendors
- Technical and contractual documentation of how LexisNexis connects to other law enforcement systems — RMS, CAD, VINE, N-DEx. These integrations are the on-ramps: how data leaves local agency systems and enters the PSDEX pipeline.
- State Cooperative Documents
- Statewide cooperative purchasing contracts that let any state government entity procure LexisNexis products without a separate competitive bid. These dramatically expand the number of agencies in the system, often without a local council vote.
- Data Access
- Documents describing who has access to PSDEX data and under what terms — subscriber agreements, access logs, and records identifying which federal, military, or commercial entities are permitted to query the system.
Statewide cooperative purchasing contracts that let any state government entity procure LexisNexis products without a separate competitive bid. These dramatically expand the number of agencies in the system, often without a local council vote.
City of Austin Recommendation for Action, File 23-1038, Agenda Item 11, dated February 9, 2023. Authorizes negotiation and execution of a five-year cooperative contract with LexisNexis Risk Data Management LLC d/b/a LexisNexis Risk Solutions, not to exceed $1,800,000, procured through the State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) cooperative. Lead department Financial Services; client department Austin Police Department; $240,000 funded in the FY2022-2023 APD budget. The contract provides licenses, maintenance, and support for the Accurint Virtual Crime Center for use by the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) and its partner agencies: Austin Police Department, University of Texas Police Department, Austin Independent School District Police Department, Georgetown Police Department, Round Rock Police Department, and the Travis County Sheriff's Office. Contact: Andrew Dillavou, Financial Services. The document confirms AVCC access across a regional fusion-center deployment. It does not include the AVCC XML Addendum and does not establish PSDEX contribution by any of the named agencies.
Grant application from the Alaska Department of Public Safety, published through the State of Alaska's Online Public Notices system. DPS states that its records management system (RMS) data is fed into the LexisNexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center (AVCC), "a database available to law enforcement throughout the country." The document confirms DPS signed a five-year agreement with LexisNexis and committed to soliciting local Alaska law enforcement agencies to join and pay for their own AVCC subscriptions, running through 2023, with renewal expected the following year. DPS describes AVCC as a means to overcome the barrier of incompatible RMS systems used by agencies across the state.