Blount County Commission operates in Blount County, Alabama, northeast of Birmingham. This post covers 30 months of Flock network audit logs obtained for the agency, spanning December 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026. 13,723,155 searches in total from 5,457 distinct organizations.
- Type: Network audit
- Timespan: Dec 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026 (30 months)
- Records: 13,723,155
- Organizations (network): 5,457
- Search types: lookup (9,498,052), lookup - Mobile (1,986,015), search (1,905,096), search - Mobile (304,996), convoy (25,780), other (3,216)
- License plate attached: 12,801,375 (93.3%)
- Case # present: 2,770,107 (20.2%)
#Search types
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| lookup | 9,498,052 | 69.2% |
| lookup - Mobile | 1,986,015 | 14.5% |
| search | 1,905,096 | 13.9% |
| search - Mobile | 304,996 | 2.2% |
| convoy | 25,780 | 0.2% |
| apiV1 | 2,507 | <0.1% |
| searchSummary - Mobile | 560 | <0.1% |
| visual | 105 | <0.1% |
| freeform | 40 | <0.1% |
| multiGeo | 4 | <0.1% |
#Top operators
All operator names in this dataset are redacted
#Top agencies
| Agency | Searches | % |
|---|---|---|
| Houston TX PD | 1,428,582 | 10.4% |
| California Highway Patrol | 266,980 | 1.9% |
| Dallas TX PD | 186,479 | 1.4% |
| DeKalb County GA PD | 170,954 | 1.2% |
| Birmingham AL PD | 165,997 | 1.2% |
| Harris County TX SO | 135,047 | 1.0% |
| Louisville Metro KY PD | 132,283 | 1.0% |
| Carmel IN PD | 123,918 | 0.9% |
| Hillsborough County FL SO | 117,206 | 0.9% |
| Jacksonville FL SO | 109,373 | 0.8% |
| Missouri State Highway Patrol | 98,109 | 0.7% |
| Cobb County GA PD | 97,985 | 0.7% |
| Texas Dept. of Public Safety | 97,320 | 0.7% |
| Coweta County GA SO | 93,487 | 0.7% |
| Atlanta GA PD | 88,067 | 0.6% |
| Palm Beach County FL SO | 87,963 | 0.6% |
| Kansas Highway Patrol | 85,123 | 0.6% |
| Fort Worth TX PD | 84,550 | 0.6% |
| Jefferson County AL SO | 83,774 | 0.6% |
| Oklahoma City OK PD | 71,184 | 0.5% |
Houston TX PD alone accounts for more than one in ten searches across the entire dataset. Alabama agencies as a group contributed 833,747 searches (6.1%), with Birmingham AL PD leading in-state at 165,997.
#Reasons
| Reason | Count |
|---|---|
| inv / investigation / Investigation / INV / INVESTIGATION (combined) | ~1,382,195 |
| stolen / Stolen / STOLEN (combined) | ~468,567 |
| Drugs/Narcotics - | 213,750 |
| Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive) - | 201,153 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen - | 176,999 |
| Traffic Infraction - | 155,362 |
| warrant | 143,434 |
| Auto Theft / VCD Investigation | 119,917 |
| invest | 115,824 |
| theft / Theft | ~163,070 |
| Larceny/Theft Offenses - | 111,092 |
| suspect / Suspect | ~146,610 |
| Auto Theft / VCD Investigation - | 76,098 |
| wanted | 67,102 |
| intel | 62,508 |
| Robbery / Jugging Investigation | 62,434 |
| Hit and Run/Car Accident - | 57,223 |
| 99 | 49,834 |
| Assault/Battery Offenses - | 47,039 |
Case number coverage is 20.2%
#Report highlights
#Immigration
6,410 records contain immigration-related terms. The top stated reasons include ICE (1,358), Immigration (criminal) - (774), Immigration (civil/administrative) - (491), and ice (405). Additional entries reference deportation warrants, HSI/ICE targets, and immigration enforcement unit codes. These searches originate from multiple agencies across the network, not from Blount County Commission itself.
#Anomalies
#Test records
62,341 records carry reasons consistent with training or testing: test (13,464), Test (10,893), Training (6,578), training (5,604), TEST (3,710), Other - Training (1,934), and additional variants. These records appear throughout the audit period and represent operational searches mixed with non-operational entries in the same log.
#Volume trend
Weekly search volume grew substantially across the 30-month window. The week of December 4, 2023 saw 34,381 searches. By May 2026, individual weeks regularly exceeded 230,000 — a roughly seven-fold increase.