Data update: Darien CT PD (May 2026)

Records from Darien CT PD were added this week.

#Darien CT PD

Darien CT PD serves Darien — a wealthy Fairfield County shoreline community of roughly 22,000 residents about 30 miles northeast of New York City on the Metro-North New Haven Line.

#Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Jan 1, 2025 – Apr 1, 2026 (~15 months)
• Records: 6,995
• Search types: search (3,596, 51.4%), lookup (3,368, 48.1%), convoy (14), multiGeo (12), visual (5)
• License plate attached: 4,940 of 6,995 (70.6%)

The FOIA production included duplicate copies of seven monthly files — each paired with an identical file carrying a random suffix (e.g., April_2025_Audit_z8rbDxe.csv). All duplicates confirmed bit-for-bit identical; the canonical files are counted above.

An additional file covering Jan 1, 2023 – Apr 22, 2026 contains 3,645 admin event log entries (user account creates and updates, not searches) and is not included in the record totals.

Ten officers account for the bulk of searches: Gregory Benedetto (848), Leslie Silva (660), Mauricio Vigil (395), Edwin Vigil (379), Erin Schlottman (312), Luis Serna (310), Thomas Scanlon (272), Elizabeth DiIorio (257), Thomas Guerrero (159), and Katrina Cook (122). 2,149 records carry no officer name.

Larceny is the most common reason string (201), followed by three specific case numbers that appear repeatedly: 2500009859 (174), 25-6901 (130), and 25-4501 (124), with a fourth 25-4361 accounting for 112 — together these four case numbers account for 540 records, nearly 8% of all searches, suggesting active multi-month investigations being queried on a recurring basis.

Suspicious vehicle appears under two capitalizations totaling 251 records. Pursuit (120), various stolen-vehicle strings (~268 combined), LARC (96), mva (63), and criminal (80) round out the top reasons. The reason Daytime search for best result (106) is an unusual string that appears to be an informal note rather than a case-related reason.

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Feb 21, 2024 – Mar 1, 2026
• Records: 175,292
• Organizations: 2,293

No network audit data was provided for calendar year 2025 — coverage jumps from December 2024 directly to January 2026. The org audit files cover 2025 without interruption, so the gap appears to be a production omission in the FOIA response rather than a camera or system outage.

#Search types

#Top searchers

The NYS Crime Analysis Center Network leads with 21,548 searches — 12.3% of all network queries through Darien’s cameras — reflecting active cross-state data sharing between a New York statewide fusion center and a Connecticut deployment. Suffolk County NY PD and SO together account for another 7.2%. New York agencies collectively represent a substantial share of searches on a Connecticut network.

The US Postal Inspection Service at #3 (6,006 searches) is a federal law enforcement agency with no obvious geographic tie to Fairfield County. Houston TX PD (2,435) appears at #12 from roughly 1,500 miles away, continuing its pattern as a high-volume Flock network user across many deployments we’ve examined.

#Immigration enforcement

50 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 “Financial Crime (Embezzlement/Fraud) - HSI” (10), “Traffic Infraction - ICE Team” (10), “HSI INVEST” (6), “Human Trafficking - HSI invest” (4), and “HSI-CMLO” (4). Lowndes County GA SO appears here as it does across several other Flock networks we’ve examined.