Logs from the Aurora, Missouri Police Department were added, covering March 2026. Aurora is a small city of roughly 7,500 residents in Lawrence County in southwest Missouri.
Organization audit
- Type: Organization audit
- Timespan: Mar 7, 2026 – Apr 5, 2026
- Records: 70
- License plates: 58.6% of records
Seven officers are represented across the 70 records. No case numbers are present on any entry.
The first search is dated March 7 — the network audit (below) shows camera traffic starting March 1, so the gap likely reflects a slow start to usage rather than a later deployment date.
The 41 plate lookups in the org audit cover only 9 distinct license plates.
The remaining 29 records are vehicle description searches (no plate). Five searches targeted a red Ford, five targeted a motorcycle, and thirteen carried no filter at all — apparently leaving those queries as unfiltered scans of the camera network.
Network audit
- Type: Network audit
- Timespan: Mar 1 – Apr 1, 2026 (1 month)
- Records: 116,067
- Organizations: 111
Houston TX PD
Houston TX PD accounts for 57,423 of the 116,067 searches. That’s 49.5% of all queries run through Aurora’s camera network. Houston is roughly 700 miles from Aurora. Its presence at this scale in a small Missouri town’s network is consistent with Houston PD’s outsized footprint documented elsewhere on this site.
Houston’s reason categories (“Auto Theft / VCD Investigation,” “Homicide / Major Assaults Investigation,” “Robbery / Jugging Investigation”) dominate the network-wide reason breakdown as a result.
Missouri agencies
The remaining 58,644 searches come from 110 organizations, nearly all Missouri agencies. The top Missouri searchers are Missouri State Highway Patrol (9,313), St. Louis County MO PD (4,502), St. Charles County MO PD (4,379), and Jefferson County MO SO (4,066). Lawrence County MO SO — the county in which Aurora sits — contributes 372 searches.
MOCIC (Missouri Organized Crime Information Center), a RISS-affiliated intelligence network, logged 675 searches against Aurora’s cameras.
Three drug enforcement entities also appear in the logs: Mid Missouri Drug Task Force (361), the Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team (272), and Midwest HIDTA (40). The Ozarks Drug Enforcement Team is a multi-agency task force covering southwest Missouri — the region where Aurora is located.