The full investigation. How police departments across the country came to copy their records into a LexisNexis database, what is in those records, and who can search them. Start here if you want the whole story.

LexisNexis publishes sample versions of the reports it sells to police. Open one to see what a single search returns: addresses, relatives, vehicles, phones, and the people around a person. This is the product.

LexisNexis is one piece of a much larger company. This page explains who owns it, what else they sell, and why a legal publisher ended up running a police data exchange.

LexisNexis describes what it does in its own words when it is selling to police. This page walks through that pitch so you can see the product the way a chief sees it.

Every police department we have documented, searchable by city, county, or state. Each entry links to the contract or records return it came from.

Every agency on the LexisNexis Community Crime Map, with a flag for whether its feed also lands in the Accurint Virtual Crime Center, how many records it has sent, and when it last uploaded. Behind a passphrase for now.

The company publishes a list of agencies in its Public Safety Data Exchange. It is undated and incomplete, but it is their list, in their words. Search the page for your city.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's directory of surveillance technology by department: license plate readers, drones, facial recognition, and more. AVCC is one line on a longer list.

Every contract, addendum, and records return we have received from police departments, hosted on DocumentCloud. Searchable and downloadable. This is the evidence behind the directory.

Find your department's page on MuckRock to see what other people have already requested from it and what came back. Useful before filing anything yourself.

A walkthrough of a LexisNexis training video for its license plate reader product, including covert cameras. Same company, different sensor, same data pipeline.

An archived sales webinar in which LexisNexis and ShadowDragon show police how social media monitoring plugs into the Accurint platform. Worth watching to hear the pitch unedited.

Look up your city, then send a short briefing and a ready-made email to your council and police chief. We track which cities have been asked and what they said back.

Written for elected officials who have an AVCC contract in front of them. What the addendum does, what to ask before voting, and what other cities have done. Hand this to your council member.

Tell us your city and we file the public records request, handle the back-and-forth, and publish what comes back. You do not have to write anything.