When El Paso residents file a crime report online, that data doesn't stay with the El Paso Police Department. It goes to LexisNexis Risk Solutions — a $40 billion data corporation — and you never consented to it.
The El Paso Police Department uses Coplogic — a product of LexisNexis Risk Solutions — to accept every online non-emergency crime report filed by residents. The portal looks like a city service. The web address tells a different story: secure.coplogic.com.
LexisNexis is not a law enforcement company. It is one of the largest private data brokers in the United States, whose products serve insurance underwriters, background check services, civil litigation firms, and financial risk scorers. Your stolen bike report may be a data point in all of them.
And because the data lives on LexisNexis servers — not City servers — a Texas Public Information Act request can be legally deflected: the City doesn't have the records, because the City never had them.
Resident data flows to LexisNexis servers governed by their Terms of Service — not City policy. A sister product called BuyCrash automatically routes reports to insurance companies. You filed with your police department. The insurance industry got a copy.
Texas Public Information Act requests directed to the City can be legitimately deflected when records live on vendor servers. Third-party hosting quietly hollows out public records law. The data is yours. You can't get it back.
We have filed a TPIA addendum asking whether any EPPD personnel or City officials received financial benefits, bonuses, or compensation from LexisNexis outside the contract scope. The City has 10 business days to answer.
Coplogic operates in hundreds of jurisdictions. This is not an El Paso failure — it is a national infrastructure problem that no one has challenged at the policy level. El Paso can be the city that does it first.
"When a resident reaches out to their government, that communication belongs to the public record of the City of El Paso — not to the intellectual property ecosystem of a private data broker."
The TPIA filings, the policy proposals, the university partnership pitch, the coalition building — every document in this fight was built by one independent journalist doing the work El Paso's local media has decided not to do.
If you believe public data should stay public, back it.
TPIA responses. Council votes. New filings. First to know.
No spam. No sharing your data. (That would be ironic.)