Data update: Dublin GA (Mar 2026)
5.3M network audit searches from Dublin GA PD, June 2024 – May 2025
A set of ~5.26M network audit searches from Dublin, Georgia PD covering June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025 was added.
- Type: Network audit
- Timespan: Jun 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025 (12 months)
- Records: 5,260,935
- Unique license plates: 1,481,386
- Organizations: 3,501
Search type shift
Starting in August 2024 (when the search_type column first appears with differentiated values), lookup searches outnumber search queries roughly 3:1. Over the following months, search volume climbs steadily while lookup declines — and by May 2025, search overtakes lookup for the first time (321,768 vs 253,387).
This mirrors the pattern documented in Santa Cruz, where a similar inversion between Lookup and Search was observed. The fact that this shift appears in Dublin, Georgia — a small city on the other side of the country — suggests it is a platform-wide change in how Flock surfaces queries, not an agency-level policy decision.
* June 2024 is excluded from the chart above because the search_type column was not present in that month’s export.
Anomalies
July 2024: partial export
July 2024 contains only ~106K records and 242 organizations, compared to 370K–575K records and 2,600–3,500 organizations in every other month. This appears to be an incomplete export rather than a genuine drop in activity.
On July 2, 2025, the responding FOIA officer emailed:
Just an update Flock is having issues with the Network Audit data software. They have put in a ticket for have it repaired so as soon as it is repaired I will have the data to you.
This confirms that Flock’s audit export tooling has known reliability issues — the same tooling that agencies depend on for oversight and public records compliance.
January 2025: device counts missing
In the January 2025 export, 99.2% of records (536,979 of 541,409) have total_devices_searched set to zero despite being otherwise valid searches with license plates, reasons, and timestamps. The field partially recovers in February (15% zeros) and returns to normal by March. This is consistent with a bug in Flock’s export pipeline.
Devices searched: a 15x increase
The average number of devices searched per query jumped from ~3,400–5,400 in mid-2024 to ~57,000 by spring 2025 — a roughly 15-fold increase.
December 2024 and January 2025 show transitional values (35,500 and 10,067 respectively), with January’s figure depressed by the device count bug noted above. By February the new baseline of ~52,000–57,000 devices per search is established and holds steady.
The number of agencies that appear in Dublin’s logs does not significantly change, except for July 2024 due to the partial data availability.
If Dublin had enabled the national lookup network at the time the devices counts changed that could explain the sudden jump, but the lack of change in the number of searching agencies suggests that did not happen.
Instead, the number of organizations accessing Dublin’s Flock network grew steadily from 2,647 in June 2024 to 3,501 by May 2025 — a 32% increase in one year.