# CrimeTracer **Domain:** Austin Research / Surveillance **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied essay and the specifically identified records; verification scope is recorded in [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|the evidence ledger]]. **CrimeTracer** is the name adopted for COPLINK X in SoundThinking’s April 2023 rebranding. The company’s June 2023 account presents it as the searchable-information component of a broader public-safety portfolio. The Austin essay uses this commercial scale to ask where public records can travel after their original collection and sharing agreements. The relevant questions concern contributor ownership, indexing, allowed queries, onward disclosure, retention, and correction after a change of provider. A large advertised record count is a vendor statement about product scale, not an inventory of Austin records. The proposition that records Austin supplied to NCTCOG LEAP later entered CrimeTracer remains unresolved. Establishing it requires the [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|2014 handoff]] and subsequent migration records. The wiki preserves that hypothesis alongside the documented federal LEAP interface, without using commercial market consolidation as a substitute for the missing data lineage. ## Connected entries [[wiki/COPLINK|COPLINK]] · [[wiki/SoundThinking|SoundThinking]] · [[wiki/Forensic Logic|Forensic Logic]] · [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|LEAP Provider Transition]] · [[wiki/Surveillance Record Persistence|Surveillance Record Persistence]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [SoundThinking — COPLINK X Is Now CrimeTracer, June 5, 2023](https://www.soundthinking.com/blog/coplink-x-is-now-crimetracer/) - [NCTCOG — FY2014 comprehensive annual financial report, PDF p. 10, provider transition](https://www.nctcog.org/getmedia/cb64f213-b8d5-4332-aae2-8cabe5354be1/CAFR2014.pdf?ext=.pdf) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger]]