Records from the Village of Bloomingdale IL PD were added, covering June 2024 through early April 2026. Bloomingdale is a village of roughly 22,000 residents in DuPage County, Illinois, about 30 miles west of Chicago.
Organization audit
- Type: Organization audit
- Timespan: Jun 1, 2024 – Apr 4, 2026 (~22 months)
- Records: 18,008
- Search types: search (9,907), lookup (6,115), untyped (1,980)
The majority of searches are vehicle-description queries rather than plate lookups. Top reasons include “inv” (2,399), “theft” (678), “info” (590), “retail theft” (507), and “flee” (397). Reason formatting is inconsistent — “inv,” “INV,” and “investigation” all appear separately.
1,980 records have no search type at all, suggesting earlier records may predate Flock’s type-labeling system or that the field was left blank by the platform.
Network audit
- Type: Network audit
- Timespan: Jun 1, 2024 – Apr 5, 2026 (~22 months)
- Records: 7,431,579
- Organizations: 5,372
Volume drop
Weekly network volume averaged roughly 100K–130K searches through mid-2025. Starting in November 2025, volume collapsed to roughly 30K–40K per week, and the number of searching organizations dropped from ~2,000 to ~350.
Search types
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| lookup | 4,878,318 | 65.6% |
| search | 2,538,982 | 34.2% |
| convoy | 13,525 | 0.18% |
| visual | 424 | <0.01% |
| multiGeo | 217 | <0.01% |
Top searchers
| Organization | Searches |
|---|---|
| Houston TX PD | 515,338 |
| Joliet IL PD | 125,266 |
| Dallas TX PD | 104,581 |
| Illinois State Police | 95,241 |
| Chicago IL PD | 71,072 |
| Will County IL SO | 68,038 |
| Cook County IL SO | 61,496 |
| Winnebago County IL SO | 56,845 |
| Oak Brook IL PD | 55,012 |
| Lake County IL SO | 47,386 |
Houston TX PD accounts for 6.9% of all searches run through Bloomingdale’s cameras — from roughly 700 miles away. The remaining top searchers are all Illinois agencies, consistent with Bloomingdale’s location in the Chicago metro area.
Immigration enforcement
7,134 network audit searches reference immigration or HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) in their reason field. See the immigration report for details.
The top agencies running immigration-related searches through Bloomingdale’s cameras:
| Organization | Searches |
|---|---|
| West Chicago IL PD | 1,212 |
| Hanover Park IL PD | 840 |
| Lowndes County GA SO | 693 |
| Hoover AL PD | 411 |
| Florida Highway Patrol | 368 |
| Banks County GA SO | 332 |
| Butler Township OH PD | 303 |
| Sterling Heights MI PD | 202 |
| Darien IL PD | 196 |
| Houston TX PD | 169 |
The most common reason strings are “HSI” (2,593), “ICE” (1,424 across case variations), “HSI ASSIST” (226), “HSI-CMLO” (215), and “immigration” (154). West Chicago and Hanover Park — both DuPage County neighbors — account for nearly 30% of all immigration-flagged searches.