LERS Portals & Law-Enforcement Data Requests, by Platform
How police and government agencies request user data from major platforms — the official LERS portal, legal process, and emergency channels for each. Search or filter by platform below.
Step-by-step platform guides
How to get into each portal and file a preservation, records or emergency request, with the sign-in help officers ask us about most.
WhatsApp LERS Portal: Police & Government Data Request Guide
The WhatsApp law enforcement (LERS) portal: the direct link, who can register, and how police file preservation, records and emergency disclosure requests.
Open guideFacebook & Instagram LERS Portal: Police Data Request Guide
How police request Facebook, Instagram and Threads data via Meta's LERS portal at facebook.com/records: preservation, records requests, and emergencies.
Open guideTelegram Law Enforcement Data Request: How to Investigate Telegram
Telegram has no LERS portal — police request data by email under legal process. Identifiers, the data provided (IP, phone), and India's IT Rules timeline.
Open guideApple Law Enforcement Portal: Police Data Request Guide (iCloud)
How police request Apple and iCloud data via the Apple Law Enforcement Portal (lep.apple.com): preservation, emergency disclosure, and the warrant rule.
Open guideLaw Enforcement Data Requests: Platform-by-Platform LERS Guide
How police and government request user data from WhatsApp, Google, Meta, Apple and Telegram: the LERS portals, preservation vs disclosure, emergencies, and India's MLAT route.
Open guideWhat Is LERS? Law-Enforcement Response Systems, Explained
LERS stands for Law Enforcement Response (or Request) System — the online portals where verified police submit data requests to WhatsApp, Google, Meta, Apple and more. How they work.
Open guideTikTok Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police file preservation, records and emergency requests with TikTok's law enforcement portal, and what legal process each type of data needs.
Open guideBinance LERS Portal: Police & Government Data Request Guide
How authorised police and government officials request data from Binance: the global Government Law Enforcement Request System (LERS) via Kodex, what to submit, and how India routes Binance requests through the I4C Sahyog Portal.
Open guideUber Law Enforcement Portal (LERT): Police & Government Data Request Guide
How authorised police and government officials request data from Uber: the Law Enforcement Request Tool (LERT) at lert.uber.com — request types, the safety review, what to submit step by step, and how India's I4C Sahyog Portal fits in.
Open guideX (Twitter) Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Data Request Guide
How authorised police request X (Twitter) user data: the legal request portal, data tiers, emergency data requests and the MLAT route for foreign agencies.
Open guideDiscord Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How authorised law enforcement and government agencies lawfully obtain user data from Discord: the Kodex portal, data tiers, emergency requests, and India's MLAT process.
Open guideSnapchat Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Snapchat data through Snap's law enforcement portal: preservation, subpoena, 2703(d) order and warrant tiers, and emergency requests.
Open guideMicrosoft Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Microsoft consumer account data (Outlook, OneDrive, Xbox): legal process, the portal, emergencies and the MLAT route for foreign agencies.
Open guideAmazon, AWS & Ring Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Amazon, AWS and Ring data: account records, AWS account attribution, and Ring footage (warrant since 2024), plus India's MLAT route.
Open guideRoblox Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Roblox data: the LE portal, the subpoena, court-order and warrant tiers, chat logs, NCMEC child-safety, emergencies, and India's route.
Open guideCash App Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Cash App (Block) records: account and transaction data, bitcoin activity, preservation, and what Block's law enforcement page requires.
Open guideReddit Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police and government agencies request Reddit account data: the subpoena, court-order and warrant tiers, preservation, emergencies, and India's MLAT route.
Open guideRevolut Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request Revolut records: UK production orders and the Lithuania (EU) route, KYC and transaction data, freezes, and India's MLAT path.
Open guidePayPal & Venmo Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police request PayPal and Venmo records through the Safety Hub portal: the identifiers they search on, what they publish about legal process, emergencies.
Open guideSignal Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
What law enforcement can get from Signal: only the account registration and last-connection dates, and why the seized device, not Signal's servers, holds the evidence.
Open guideCloudflare Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How investigators work with Cloudflare: why it points you to the hosting provider rather than the content, its abuse versus legal-process channels, emergency disclosure, customer-notice policy, and the MLAT route for non-US agencies.
Open guideCoinbase Law Enforcement Guide: How Police Request Data (LERS)
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators worldwide request data from Coinbase: its law-enforcement portal, preservation versus production, emergency disclosure, MLAT for foreign agencies, account freezes and the FATF Travel Rule.
Open guideKraken Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide (LERS)
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators request data from Kraken (Payward). Covers Kraken's legal-request channel, data it can produce, preservation versus production, emergency disclosure, freezes, MLAT for non-US officers and the FATF Travel Rule.
Open guideWeChat Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
A candid reference for investigators on requesting WeChat and Weixin data from Tencent: the mainland-China vs international data split, why most content is unreachable, MLAT realities, emergency channels, and the device-level alternatives that actually work.
Open guideDigitalOcean Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators can obtain subscriber records, server content and logs from DigitalOcean, covering abuse reports, preservation, subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, emergency disclosure and the request portal.
Open guideOracle Cloud Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police, prosecutors and government investigators request data from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: the processor-vs-controller model, redirect-to-customer policy, what Oracle holds directly, US legal thresholds, customer notice and foreign (MLAT) requests.
Open guideOVHcloud Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide
How police, prosecutors and cybercrime investigators obtain customer, server and connection data from OVHcloud, the French cloud provider, including why its EU legal route differs sharply from US providers and which instrument foreign agencies must use.
Open guideGoogle & Gmail Law Enforcement Data Request (LERS): Police & Government Guide
How police use Google's LERS portal at lers.google.com: register your agency, the subpoena, court-order and warrant ladder, preservation, and emergencies.
Open guideZelle Law Enforcement Requests: How Police Get Zelle Records (Early Warning Services + the Banks)
Zelle has no law-enforcement portal. This guide explains the dual-track legal process U.S. investigators must use: a subpoena to Early Warning Services for network transaction metadata, plus separate legal process served on the sending and receiving banks for account and identity data.
Open guideLinkedIn Law Enforcement Data Request: Police & Government Guide (BEC & Employment Scams)
How authorised investigators request LinkedIn member data — submitted through LinkedIn's Kodex portal. Covers the subpoena-vs-warrant ladder (messages and connections need a warrant), preservation, emergency disclosure, and why LinkedIn matters for BEC and fake-recruiter investigations.
Open guideAmazon Law Enforcement Request Tracker (emea.ler.amazon.com): EU & UK Police Guide
How EU and UK police submit requests to Amazon, AWS and Ring through the ALERT portal at emea.ler.amazon.com: legal process, emergencies and what data you get.
Open guideLinkedIn Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Template
How police preserve LinkedIn account data (90 days) and request emergency disclosure, per LinkedIn's guidelines and 18 U.S.C. 2703(f) and 2702, with templates.
Open guideSnapchat Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide & Template
How police preserve a Snapchat account and request emergency disclosure: Snap's LESS portal, 90-day rule, identifiers and ready-to-adapt templates.
Open guideTikTok Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide & Template
How US police preserve a TikTok account and make emergency requests: TikTok's webform, 90-day preservation, required details and templates.
Open guideDiscord Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide & Template
How police preserve a Discord account and file emergency disclosure requests via Discord's Government Request Portal, with identifiers and templates.
Open guideGoogle Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide, Template
Google preservation and emergency disclosure requests for police: what Google publishes, the 90-day statute, LERS, and two templates to adapt.
Open guideApple iCloud Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Template
Apple iCloud preservation and emergency requests for police: Apple's own rules, 90-day period, exigent form, mistakes to avoid, and two templates.
Open guideMicrosoft Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Template
Microsoft preservation and emergency requests for police: what Microsoft publishes, what it does not, the 90-day statute, and templates to adapt.
Open guideOpenAI and ChatGPT Preservation and Emergency Requests: Template
OpenAI's published police route for ChatGPT accounts: 90-day preservation under 2703(f), the six emergency items, Kodex portal, and two adaptable templates.
Open guideRoblox Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
What Roblox publishes for police on preservation and emergency requests, the Portal route, what it leaves out, the statute, and two adaptable templates.
Open guideAirbnb Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
How police preserve Airbnb account records and request emergency disclosure: Airbnb's Portal route, what it says, statute, and two adaptable templates.
Open guideReddit Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
How police preserve Reddit account data and make emergency disclosure requests via Reddit's Legal Request Portal, with templates. For law enforcement only.
Open guideAmazon Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
How law enforcement requests preservation and emergency disclosure from Amazon, AWS and Ring through ALERT, with templates. For law enforcement only.
Open guideUber Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
How law enforcement preserves Uber account data and sends emergency requests through Uber's Public Safety Portal, with templates. For law enforcement only.
Open guideMeta Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
How police preserve Facebook and Instagram account data and request emergency disclosure, per Meta's own guidelines, with two plain-text templates.
Open guideWhatsApp Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Guide, Template
How police ask WhatsApp to preserve account records and make emergency requests, per WhatsApp's own guidelines, including what it says it does not store.
Open guideX (Twitter) Preservation and Emergency Requests: Police Template
How police ask X to preserve account records and make emergency disclosure requests, per X's own guidelines, with plain-text templates for each.
Open guideCash App Preservation & Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
How police and investigators ask Cash App (Block) to preserve account records and flag an emergency: what Block publishes, the statute, and templates.
Open guidePayPal & Venmo Preservation & Emergency Requests: Police Template
PayPal and Venmo publish little on preservation or emergency requests. What Safety Hub, Venmo and the statute say, plus adaptable templates.
Open guideCoinbase Preservation & Emergency Requests: Police Guide and Template
Coinbase publishes no preservation or emergency procedure. What its law enforcement portal, privacy policy and the statute say, plus templates.
Open guideOpenAI and ChatGPT Law Enforcement Data Requests: LERS Portal, Process and 2026 Figures
How agencies request ChatGPT user data from OpenAI: the Kodex portal, legal process by country, user notice, and OpenAI's H1 2026 request figures.
Open guideOnline services directory
Where to send a lawful request to 156 services. Every portal, email and address comes from the service’s own official page and was re-checked by a second reviewer.
How police in your country request the data
Every country can use the portals for preservation and emergency requests. What differs is the route for message content: a US MLAT, a CLOUD Act agreement or a letter rogatory.
More countries are added as officers ask.
More for investigators. Get the free Investigator’s Handbook (PDF) with all of this in one place. Received a records response from a platform? Turn it into an investigation-ready report with the Facebook LERS Data Analyzer in our Forensic Tools. For ISP and telecom operators rather than platforms, see the ISP & Telecom Contact Directory, or the Cyber Agencies Directory for each country’s CERT and police cybercrime unit.