DeKalb is a city of about 40,000 people in DeKalb County, Illinois. This update adds 1,131 org audit records from DeKalb IL PD. An org audit lists searches run by the agency’s own Flock users. The records run from Jan 6 to Aug 24, 2026. Thanks to James Weston for obtaining and sharing these records.
- Type: Organization audit
- Timespan: Jan 6 – Aug 24, 2026 (about 7.5 months)
- Records: 1,131
- Search types: lookup (826), search (279), lookup - Mobile (22), search - Mobile (4)
- License plate: redacted on all 1,131 records
- Case # present: 1,033 (91.3%)
Almost all of the records fall in the last three months. The log holds 21 searches from Jan 6 to May 24. It holds 1,110 from May 25 to Aug 24. July has the most, with 546.
Searches ranged from one network to 6,486. Of the 1,131 searches, 513 (45.4%) queried only DeKalb’s own network. Another 478 (42.3%) queried more than 1,000 networks at once.
The agency redacted all operator names and all license plates. Reasons and case numbers appear in full.
#Search types
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| lookup | 826 | 73.0% |
| search | 279 | 24.7% |
| lookup - Mobile | 22 | 1.9% |
| search - Mobile | 4 | 0.4% |
#Reasons
DeKalb’s reasons pair a Flock offense category with a free-text note, such as “Drugs/Narcotics - narcotics”. This table groups records by the category.
| Category | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Drugs/Narcotics | 149 | 13.2% |
| Hit and Run/Car Accident | 121 | 10.7% |
| Weapons Offense (Guns/Shots Fired) | 102 | 9.0% |
| Larceny/Theft Offenses | 97 | 8.6% |
| Assault/Battery Offenses | 82 | 7.3% |
| Burglary/Breaking & Entering | 81 | 7.2% |
| Welfare Check | 67 | 5.9% |
| Robbery | 61 | 5.4% |
| Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen | 55 | 4.9% |
| Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive) | 52 | 4.6% |
| Assault/Battery Offenses (Domestic) | 35 | 3.1% |
| Stolen Property Offenses | 33 | 2.9% |
| Disorderly Conduct/Disturbance | 30 | 2.7% |
| Missing/Endangered Person/Runaway | 23 | 2.0% |
| Obstructing the Police (Fleeing/Eluding) | 22 | 1.9% |
| Other (18 categories) | 121 | 10.7% |
The most common full reason is “Drugs/Narcotics - narcotics”, with 135 records. Next come “Assault/Battery Offenses - Shooting/narcotics” (62) and “Robbery - Suspect” (49).
Some notes are keyboard filler. Examples include “dfdf”, “ZDFGADFADF”, “asdfasdf”, and “,jhgjhgkjhgikjhyg”. Twenty-eight records carry one of these notes.
#Report highlights
#Low-level offenses
Forty-two records match terms that the low-level offenses report tracks. Most are disorderly conduct searches (30). The rest cite trespass (9) or illegal dumping (3).
#Anomalies
#Test records
Seven records on Jun 10 and Jun 11, 2026 look like tests. Three give “test” as the reason note. Four give “training”. All seven use placeholder case numbers such as “1111” and “1234”.
120 records use the case number “26-00000”, which looks like a placeholder.