Data update: Bloomingdale IL PD (Apr 2026)

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

#Top searchers

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:

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.