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Data update: McDonough County IL SO (June 2026)

6.2M network audit records from McDonough County IL SO covering February 2025 through April 2026, with 4,417 agencies on the network.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Records from McDonough County IL SO were added, covering February 2025 through April 2026. McDonough County is a rural county in west-central Illinois anchored by Macomb — population roughly 32,000 for the county — and home to Western Illinois University.

#Organization audit

  • Type: Organization audit (McDonough County SO’s own searches)
  • Timespan: Mar 10, 2025 – Apr 21, 2026 (~13 months)
  • Records: 575
  • Search types: lookup: 329 (57.2%), search: 246 (42.8%)

575 outbound searches over 13 months is a low rate for a county sheriff — roughly 44 searches per month. No blank reasons. Top entries: theft (64), Obstructing the Police (Fleeing/Eluding) - (49), burglary variants (~71 combined), DRUGS/Drugs/Narcotics - (~42), and Missing/Endangered Person/Runaway - (21).

#Network audit

  • Type: Network audit
  • Timespan: Feb 19, 2025 – Apr 21, 2026 (~14 months)
  • Records: 6,158,356
  • Organizations: 4,417

For every search by McDonough County, whose taxpayers are footing the bill for the surveillance system, other agencies conducted 10,710 searches.

#Search types

TypeCount%
lookup5,382,33587.4%
search770,20012.5%
convoy2,8600.05%
apiV12,5070.04%
searchSummary201<0.01%
multiGeo186<0.01%
freeform65<0.01%

#Top searchers

OrganizationSearches
Houston TX PD121,886
Michigan State Police94,837
Louisville Metro KY PD93,012
Indianapolis Metro PD IN79,375
Dallas TX PD68,536
Texas Department of Public Safety63,904
Kansas Highway Patrol62,676
Cleveland OH Division of Police62,316
Hillsborough County FL SO61,996
Lake County IN SO60,213

The top searcher — Houston TX PD, over 800 miles away — ran nearly 2% of all searches through a rural Illinois county sheriff’s cameras. Texas agencies collectively account for a substantial portion of the total. This pattern of high-volume Texas participation appears consistently across Illinois Flock networks in this dataset.

#Monthly volume

MonthRecords
Feb 202591,971
Mar 2025293,242
Apr 2025284,219
May 2025263,567
Jun 2025233,323
Jul 2025230,605
Aug 2025322,068
Sep 2025458,320
Oct 2025582,167
Nov 2025565,232
Dec 2025532,691
Jan 2026546,881
Feb 2026594,679
Mar 2026683,002
Apr 2026476,389

February 2025 is a partial month (records begin the 19th). The network was growing rapidly — monthly volume roughly tripled from spring 2025 to fall 2025, stabilizing above 500K through early 2026. March 2026 is the single highest-volume month at 683K.

#Reasons

Reason strings are a mix of Flock dropdown categories and free-text entries. Common entries: investigation and variants (142K+136K+107K across multiple capitalizations), Drugs/Narcotics - (126,143), Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive) - (117,165), stolen and variants (88K+), Traffic Infraction - (93,112), Larceny/Theft Offenses - (64,000), and warrant (66,321).

The 0.2% blank reason rate is low relative to many other agencies.