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Data update: Herrin IL PD (Apr 2026)

1,161 org audit and 3.7M network audit records from Herrin IL PD covering November 2025 through April 2026.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Records from the Herrin IL Police Department were added, covering November 2025 through mid-April 2026. Herrin is a city of roughly 12,000 residents in Williamson County in southern Illinois.

#Organization audit

  • Type: Organization audit
  • Timespan: Nov 2025 – Apr 15, 2026 (~5.5 months)
  • Records: 1,161
  • License plates: 83% visible, 17% redacted
  • Officer names: 100% visible
  • Search types: lookup (968), search (193)

Top reasons include “welfare check — attempt to locate” (108), “attempt to locate” (105), “missing person” (68), and “larceny/theft” (57). Volume dropped sharply from ~370/month in Nov–Dec 2025 to 55–163/month in the following months.

#Network audit

  • Type: Network audit
  • Timespan: Nov 2025 – Apr 15, 2026 (~5.5 months)
  • Records: 3,748,944
  • Organizations: 4,165

#Search types

TypeCount%
lookup3,412,81791.0%
search329,5248.8%
convoy3,8840.10%
apiV12,5070.07%
searchSummary190<0.01%
freeform17<0.01%

#Top searchers

OrganizationSearches
Louisville Metro KY PD60,279
Hillsborough County FL SO58,240
Houston TX PD55,614
Atlanta GA PD46,505
Texas Department of Public Safety40,667
Chicago IL PD34,782
Kansas Highway Patrol34,698
Illinois State Police33,906
Cobb County GA PD32,797
Lake County IN SO32,269

None of the top ten searchers are local to southern Illinois. Louisville Metro KY PD leads with 60,279 searches — from roughly 200 miles away. Only two of the top ten (Chicago IL PD and Illinois State Police) are even in the same state.

#Immigration enforcement

153,143 network audit searches reference immigration or HSI in their reason field — 4.1% of all network searches through Herrin’s cameras.

OrganizationSearches
Texas Department of Public Safety40,130
Dallas TX PD5,698
Kansas City MO PD4,105
Pembroke Pines FL PD2,772
Oak Brook IL PD2,648

Texas DPS alone accounts for 26% of all immigration-flagged searches through Herrin’s cameras.