Data update: Pocatello ID PD and Douglas County NV SO (May 2026)

Records from Pocatello ID PD and Douglas County NV SO were added this week.

#Pocatello ID PD

Pocatello ID PD serves Pocatello — the largest city in southeastern Idaho, with roughly 60,000 residents and home to Idaho State University. The city sits at the junction of I-15 and I-86 in Bannock County.

#Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Sep 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 (~4 months)
• Records: 3,490
• Search types: lookup (1,837, 52.6%), search (1,530, 43.8%), freeform (123, 3.5%)

All officer names in the data are redacted. The monthly files carry a “Test Audit” label in their filenames — a Flock portal naming convention, not an indicator of test or synthetic data. The December file is additionally prefixed “Mistake_December”; the data does not appear materially different from other months.

Narcotics searches are the dominant pattern. The reason strings “narcs,” “Narcs,” and “NARCS” together account for 514 records — roughly 15% of all searches — across all four months. This is the highest single-category concentration we’ve seen in an Idaho deployment.

Suspicious vehicle (155), stolen vehicle and stolen (149, 131, 118, 101, 98, 88 across several variants — roughly 685 combined), ATL (147), and weapons offense (126) follow. Accident (111), vandalism (86), wanted person (91 across two variants), eluding (46), missing person (42), DUI (39), burglary (87 across two variants), and disturbance (38) round out the upper tier.

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Sep 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 (~4 months)
• Records: 4,316,782
• Organizations: 3,700+

#Search types

#Top searchers

Counts above are estimated from 200,000-row samples per monthly file and scaled proportionally. California Highway Patrol leads by a wide margin — consistent with its dominance across other western-region Flock networks. None of the top fifteen agencies are geographically proximate to southeastern Idaho.

#Immigration enforcement

Approximately 1,800 network audit searches reference immigration enforcement activity (HSI or ICE) in their reason field, estimated from sampling. See the immigration report for details.

Counts are from the 200,000-row samples. Lowndes County GA SO and Banks County GA SO continue to appear as recurring HSI/ICE search partners across Flock networks.

#Douglas County NV SO

Douglas County SO serves Douglas County — a ~55,000-resident county in the western Nevada foothills bordering Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley. The county includes resort communities around Stateline/Lake Tahoe, the agricultural Carson Valley floor, and the US-395 and US-50 highway corridors connecting Reno to Carson City and beyond.

#Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Sep 9, 2025 – Apr 19, 2026 (~7.5 months)
• Records: 2,222
• Search types: lookup (1,701, 76.6%), search (474, 21.3%), lookup-Mobile (45, 2.0%), search-Mobile (2, 0.1%)

Data was obtained from two sources: a direct FOIA request to Flock Safety and a parallel request through MuckRuck. The September 2025 org audit files from both sources are identical. For the network audit, the Flock FOIA files are authoritative — they contain the full shared-network view (~870,000–1.2M rows per month), while the MuckRuck network files appear to reflect only Douglas County SO’s own searches through the network (~62,000–82,000 rows per month). The MuckRuck dataset extends coverage through April 28, 2026, approximately nine days beyond the Flock FOIA cutoff. All officer names are redacted.

Narcotics investigations are the largest single category. “Drugs/Narcotics - drug” (123), “Drugs/Narcotics - narc transp” (114), “Drugs/Narcotics - drugs” (61), “Drugs/Narcotics - narcotic investigation” (29), and “Drugs/Narcotics - Related to narcotics investigation” (34) together total roughly 361 narcotics-coded records — 16% of all org audit searches.

Burglary and breaking-and-entering variants account for roughly 200 records. Wanted-person searches across multiple sub-reason strings account for another ~200. “Suspect location” appears as a sub-reason across drugs, motor vehicle theft, missing person, and wanted-person categories — a consistent investigative framing across search types.

83 records are coded as kidnapping/abduction with the specific case identifier 26so07468 — the single highest concentration of any case reference in the org audit, spanning multiple months. Hit-and-run accounts for ~77 records, larceny/theft ~140+, and motor vehicle theft ~90+.

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit (Flock FOIA source)
• Timespan: Sep 1, 2025 – Apr 19, 2026 (~7.5 months)
• Records: ~7,315,000
• Organizations: 3,900+

#Search types

Mobile search types (lookup-Mobile + search-Mobile) account for roughly 14.3% of network queries.

#Top searchers

Counts estimated from 100,000-row samples per monthly file. California Highway Patrol leads by a substantial margin — consistent with Douglas County’s position on a major California–Nevada corridor. Sonoma County CA SO (#11) is the only other California agency in the top fifteen. Texas agencies (Harris County SO, Houston PD, Texas DPS, Fort Worth PD, Dallas PD, Montgomery County SO) together account for a significant share of all network searches.

#Immigration enforcement

Approximately 3,000 network audit searches reference immigration enforcement activity (HSI or ICE) in their reason field, estimated from sampling. See the immigration report for details.

The most common reason strings are “HSI” (44), “Immigration (criminal) -” (35), “ICE” (31), “Immigration (civil/administrative) -” (25), and “Traffic Infraction - ICE” (24). Lowndes County GA SO and Banks County GA SO appear as consistent HSI/ICE search partners across the Flock networks we’ve examined.