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Data update: Jonesboro GA PD (June 2026)

3,108 org audit records from Jonesboro GA PD covering January 2024 through June 2026, with one officer accounting for nearly a third of all searches.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Records from the Jonesboro GA PD were added. Jonesboro is the county seat of Clayton County, Georgia — one of the metro Atlanta counties closest to the city, about 15 miles south of downtown. The city itself has roughly 4,500 residents; the broader county has approximately 300,000. Clayton County is a majority-Black county and one of the most densely surveilled in the state.

#Organization audit

  • Type: Organization audit
  • Timespan: January 2024 – June 24, 2026
  • Records: 3,108
  • Flock users: 15

The dataset covers 25 monthly audit files. Three months in 2025 (March, November, December) and two months in 2026 (January, February) were not included in the production — gaps that may reflect missing records in the public records request response or months where no audit was generated.

#Search types

TypeCount%
search1,50448.4%
lookup94930.5%
lookup - Mobile39312.7%
search - Mobile2518.1%
convoy60.2%
visual50.2%

search and search - Mobile combined account for 56.5% of queries. lookup types (standard and mobile) make up the other 43.3%. No freeform (AI natural language) searches appear in the dataset.

#Users

OfficerSearches%
Devante Watts97431.3%
Carrie Oliver54217.4%
Tyler Reid42813.8%
Chris Cato36911.9%
John Upole2778.9%
Bennie Bridges1394.5%
Quantez Williams1153.7%
Az’Janay Scott912.9%
Jason Lane311.0%
Jackeline Cash301.0%
Tiyannah Burch290.9%
Jumaane Williams260.8%
Temperance Jacobs150.5%
Arlis Gwyn120.4%
William Holmes90.3%

Devante Watts alone accounts for 31.3% of all searches — nearly one in three. The top five users (Watts, Oliver, Reid, Cato, Upole) together account for 2,590 searches, or 83.4% of the total across the entire dataset.

#Monthly counts

MonthRecords
Jan 202473
Feb 202437
Mar 2024115
Apr 2024165
May 2024182
Jun 2024180
Jul 202460
Aug 2024182
Sep 2024132
Oct 202475
Nov 2024140
Dec 2024382
Jan 2025250
Feb 2025129
Apr 2025160
May 202567
Jun 2025106
Jul 202521
Aug 202554
Sep 202574
Oct 2025193
Mar 202694
Apr 2026117
May 202640
May 25–Jun 24, 202680

December 2024 is the highest single month (382 records), followed by January 2025 (250). July 2025 is the lowest month with available data (21 records).

#Reasons

Unlike network audits — which use Flock’s structured reason taxonomy — Jonesboro’s org audit reasons are entirely freeform text entered by individual officers. Every record has a reason field populated, but the entries vary widely in spelling, format, and specificity.

Reason (normalized)Count%
Leo / leo65621.1%
search / Search / SEARCH / serch56618.2%
stolen / stolen vehicle / stolen car2618.4%
theft / Theft1133.6%
traffic762.4%
agg assault / agg1053.4%
missing person / missing child923.0%
hit and run (all variants)1083.5%
HomicideSuspect541.7%
IQ591.9%
Murder Investgatin451.4%
test411.3%
welfare check371.2%
larceny/theft offenses351.1%
robbery250.8%
death investigation240.8%
motor vehicle theft (all variants)391.3%
s50280.9%
investgation (sic)301.0%
suspicious vehicle180.6%

“Leo” is the single most-entered reason, accounting for 656 records (21.1%).

“search” as a reason string — with no further detail — appears in 566 records (18.2%), including spelling variants like “serch.”

“IQ” appears 59 times, “S50” 28 times, “test” 41 times, and the misspelled “investgation” 30 entries times. There are also search justification that appear to relate to investigations: “HomicideSuspect” (54 times), “Murder Investgatin” (45 times), and “agg assault” (75 times) entries

153 of 3,108 records (4.9%) include a formal case number. The remaining 95.1% link the search only to the freeform reason string — or to a code like “Leo” or “IQ” with no traceable incident reference.

2,292 of 3,108 records (73.7%) include a license plate in the search.

5 records used Flock’s visual search type.