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Data update: Bloomingdale IL PD (Apr 2026)

18K org audit and 7.4M network audit records from Bloomingdale IL PD covering June 2024 through April 2026.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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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

TypeCount%
lookup4,878,31865.6%
search2,538,98234.2%
convoy13,5250.18%
visual424<0.01%
multiGeo217<0.01%

Top searchers

OrganizationSearches
Houston TX PD515,338
Joliet IL PD125,266
Dallas TX PD104,581
Illinois State Police95,241
Chicago IL PD71,072
Will County IL SO68,038
Cook County IL SO61,496
Winnebago County IL SO56,845
Oak Brook IL PD55,012
Lake County IL SO47,386

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:

OrganizationSearches
West Chicago IL PD1,212
Hanover Park IL PD840
Lowndes County GA SO693
Hoover AL PD411
Florida Highway Patrol368
Banks County GA SO332
Butler Township OH PD303
Sterling Heights MI PD202
Darien IL PD196
Houston TX PD169

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.