Data update: Boonsboro MD PD and New Castle PA PD (May 2026)

Records from Boonsboro MD PD and New Castle PA PD were added this week.

#Boonsboro MD PD

Boonsboro MD PD serves the town of Boonsboro, Maryland — a Washington County community of roughly 3,300 residents about 75 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., near Hagerstown.

#Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Sep 16, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026 (~7 months)
• Records: 335
• Search types: search (262, 78%), lookup (73, 22%)

Only three officers appear in the audit logs: James Rogers (146 searches), Amy Rudy (104), and William Gilbert (85). This is one of the smallest Flock deployments we’ve seen by officer count.

Hit-and-run investigations account for the largest share of searches (roughly 80 records across several reason-string variants including “hit and run investigation,” “hit and run/car accident,” and “hit and run/car accident - accident hit and run”). Burglary and breaking-and-entering follows (31), with larceny and theft spread across several wordings totaling roughly 70 records. A number of reason strings include “(wcso)” — Washington County Sheriff’s Office — suggesting active shared investigation work between the two agencies.

11 searches are labeled “test,” mixing system-testing activity into the audit record.

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Sep 15, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026 (~7 months)
• Records: 828,933
• Organizations: 3,700

#Search types

Nearly 17% of network audit records carry no search type label.

#Top searchers

Houston TX PD accounts for 1.8% of all searches run through Boonsboro’s cameras — from roughly 1,300 miles away. Texas agencies (Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Texas DPS) collectively account for 4.1% of total network searches. Fairfax County VA PD is the only geographically nearby agency in the top ten.

#Immigration enforcement

486 network audit searches reference immigration enforcement activity (HSI or ICE) in their reason field. See the immigration report for details.

The most common reason strings are “HSI” (145), “hsi” (68), “ICE ASSIST” (68), “ICE” (33), and “HSI Investigation” (15). Banks County GA SO and Lowndes County GA SO — two rural Georgia sheriff’s offices — appear as regular HSI/ICE search partners across multiple Flock networks we’ve examined.

#New Castle PA PD

New Castle PA PD serves New Castle, Pennsylvania — the seat of Lawrence County in western Pennsylvania, about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The city’s population has declined from a peak of roughly 48,000 in the 1960s to around 21,000 today.

#Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Aug 22, 2023 – Dec 30, 2024 (~16 months)
• Records: 3,869
• Search types: search (2,926, 75.6%), lookup (460, 11.9%), lookup-Mobile (262, 6.8%), search-Mobile (221, 5.7%)

No org audit files were provided for 2025 or 2026, though network audit data continues through April 2026.

26 officers appear in the audit logs. Branddon Hallowich leads with 967 searches, followed by Justin Manns (407), Anthony Lagnese (366), Amanda Ventura (339), and Eric Kerr (230).

The most common reason is “vehicle break-in” (476), with a near-duplicate “vehicle breakin” (246) adding another 246 records — together the single largest reason category at nearly 19% of all searches. “CM-22-0071” appears 318 times as a reason string, a specific case number from 2022 that was still being actively searched through at least late 2024. Other top reasons include “stolen” (278), “narc” (179), “shooting” (174), “bolo” (87), “unauthorized use” (68), and “homicide” (59). 59 records carry the reason “test.”

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Aug 16, 2023 – Apr 1, 2026 (~32 months)
• Records: 9,625,757
• Organizations: 5,453

#Search types

Mobile search types account for 13.3% of all network searches — higher than most comparable departments, and roughly split between lookups and vehicle-description queries. Convoy searches (17,939) look for vehicles traveling together.

#Top searchers

Houston TX PD alone accounts for 14.4% of all 9.6 million searches run through New Castle’s cameras — from roughly 1,500 miles away. Texas agencies together (Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas DPS) account for nearly 18% of all network searches.

The US Postal Inspection Service appears at #13 with over 50,000 searches — a federal law enforcement agency with no obvious geographic tie to western Pennsylvania, and an unusual presence in a network centered on a mid-sized city.

#Immigration enforcement

7,851 network audit searches reference immigration enforcement activity (HSI or ICE) in their reason field. See the immigration report for details.

The most common reason strings are “HSI” (1,754), “ICE” and its case variations (roughly 2,000 combined), “HSI-CMLO” (215), and “immigration” (131 plus case variants). Lowndes County GA SO and Banks County GA SO lead, as they do across several other Flock networks we’ve examined. West Chicago IL PD (555) continues a pattern seen in other Illinois network data.