# LexisNexis Risk Solutions The data-broker anchor of the deportation surveillance stack — a division of RELX-owned LexisNexis whose Accurint product assembles dossiers from 10,000+ data sources (addresses, DMV, property, phone, credit headers, incarceration records) and sells them to law enforcement without judicial oversight. ## The ICE pipeline Under the ~$22.1M LEIDS contract (2021–2026), [[ICE]] got Accurint access plus — after a June 2021 expansion — Appriss Insights' real-time jail-booking data, letting agents identify and arrest people the moment they're released from local custody, neutralizing sanctuary-city policies without touching them legally. The contract's five-year base period ended in February 2026 and is marked completed on USASpending. The data feeds downstream into [[Palantir]]'s [[ImmigrationOS]] targeting layer. **No successor vehicle was competed.** On **August 10, 2026** ICE posted a notice of intent to sole-source roughly **$6.7M** for a **bridge** — a seven-month base plus five one-month options — to keep LexID and the Accurint Virtual Crime Center flowing into ICE applications *including Palantir*, with new AI behavioral-inference and facial-recognition requirements attached. The bridge structure is the tell: six months after the base period lapsed, the follow-on competition still had not happened. See [[ICE LexisNexis Data Bridge Contract]]. Note the inverted sole-source logic. ICE's justification is that only LexisNexis can supply this data in the time available — and part of what makes that true is the integration Palantir already has. The dependency template that normally protects the analytics vendor here protects **the broker**. ## Resistance and exposure [[Mijente]]'s #NoTechForICE campaign made LexisNexis its central target; Illinois advocates sued in 2022 over mass collection and warrantless ICE use; a Cook County "data loophole" let ICE reach immigrant data despite the county's detainer ordinance. In April 2026, 200+ journalists at Law360 and other RELX outlets signed a letter demanding the company drop its DHS contract — data-broker employees organizing against their own product. The company also suffered a breach (discovered April 2025) exposing 364,000+ people's SSNs and license numbers, and a separate 2026 breach exposed .gov account data for federal judges and DOJ attorneys — the surveillance vendor as a security liability itself. ## See Also - [[Carceral and Border Security Sector]] · [[ICE]] · [[ImmigrationOS]] · [[Mijente]] - [[ICE LexisNexis Data Bridge Contract]] · [[Palantir ICE Systems]] - [[Flock Safety]] · [[Clearview AI]] — the other commercial surveillance layers - [[Surveillance Capitalism]]