Data update: Santa Clara County CA SO (June 2026)
23,860 org audit records from Santa Clara County CA SO covering Dec 2021–Sep 2024 and Jun–Sep 2025, with no reasons or case numbers in any record.
Records from the Santa Clara County CA Sheriff’s Office were added. Santa Clara County is a 1.9-million-resident Bay Area county anchored by San Jose; the Sheriff’s Office provides patrol services for the county’s unincorporated areas and several contract cities.
#Santa Clara County CA SO
#Organization audit
- Type: Organization audit
- Timespan: Dec 6, 2021 – Sep 4, 2025 (with a gap from Jun 2024 – Jun 23, 2025)
- Records: 23,860
- Files: 33 monthly extracts across five calendar years
- Users: 115 named; 2,844 records had the username redacted (~11.9%)
The production covers December 2021, all of 2022, all of 2023, January through May 2024, and June 23 through September 4, 2025. Records for June 2024 through June 22, 2025 — roughly a year — are absent from the production. Whether this reflects a FOIA production gap or an interruption in Flock service is unknown.
#Search types
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| search | 22,240 | 93.2% |
| lookup | 1,515 | 6.3% |
| apiLookup | 104 | 0.4% |
| convoy | 1 | 0.0% |
Vehicle-attribute searches (search) dominate — 93% of all records. These are queries using Flock’s filter interface (body type, make, color) rather than a plate number. Plate lookups (lookup) account for just 6.3%.
All 104 apiLookup records are attributed to API User (Peregrine), indicating automated queries routed through the Peregrine investigative platform. These appear exclusively in the 2025 portion of the dataset.
A single convoy record — attributed to Roslyn Weatherall on June 25, 2025 — searches 1,896 devices across 49 networks.
#Records by year
| Year | Records |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 797 |
| 2022 | 11,951 |
| 2023 | 6,075 |
| 2024 | 1,621 |
| 2025 | 3,416 |
2022 is the most active year by a wide margin — nearly half of all records in the dataset — with a notable spike in the summer and fall months (September alone: 2,494 records). Activity drops sharply from 2022 to 2023, and drops further in 2024. The 2025 figures cover only about three and a half months.
#Reasons and case numbers
No record in the dataset carries a reason or a case number. Across all 23,860 entries, the Reason and Case # fields are uniformly blank.
#Officers
| Officer | Searches |
|---|---|
| Jason Vega | 1,553 |
| Allen Munoz | 1,321 |
| Michel Vargas | 1,252 |
| Jason Aguilar | 1,182 |
| Karen Saelee | 1,082 |
| Rickey Young | 971 |
| Jacob Abuel | 936 |
| Zachary Burke | 770 |
| Gareth O’Sullivan | 688 |
| Jeremy Jones | 679 |
The top ten officers account for 49.6% of all named-officer searches. Jason Vega leads with 1,553 — 7.4% of the named-officer total.
#Vehicle filters
Because no plate numbers or reason strings are recorded, the Filters field is the only semantic content in the dataset. It encodes the body type, make, and color selections officers applied. 9,153 records (38.4%) include at least one filter; the remainder carry no filter at all.
The most common single-term filter is california (597 records), indicating a state-restriction filter applied to limit results to California-registered plates without specifying vehicle attributes. Common attribute filters include SUV (318), white (225), SUVwhite (184), Sedan (175), Pickup (166), and SUVblack (165). Among makes, Mercedes (93), Infiniti (93), BMW (83), Toyota (73), and Honda (70) appear most frequently as standalone or combined filters.