South St. Paul is a city of about 20,800 people in Dakota County, Minnesota. This update loads two sets of Flock audit logs from the South Saint Paul Police Department. The network audit lists every search of South Saint Paul’s cameras by any agency from August 2025 through July 2026. The organization audit lists every search run by South Saint Paul’s own Flock users from November 2025 through July 2026. The agency redacted all license plates in both sets. It also redacted operator names and case numbers in the network audit. Both sets contain 2,199 of the same searches, which South Saint Paul ran from November 2025 onward.
Network audit
- Type: Network audit
- Timespan: Aug 1, 2025 – Jul 31, 2026 (12 months; Apr 18–30, 2026 not provided)
- Records: 40,470
- Search types: lookup (32,393), search (5,524), search-Mobile (1,539), lookup-Mobile (955), other (59)
- License plate attached: 33,369 (82.5%), all redacted
- Case # present: 30,093 (74.4%), all redacted
- Organizations (network): 85
Organization audit
- Type: Organization audit
- Timespan: Nov 1, 2025 – Jul 31, 2026 (9 months)
- Records: 2,332
- Search types: lookup (1,489), search (615), lookup-Mobile (185), search-Mobile (43)
- License plate: redacted in all 2,332 records
- Case # present: 1,190 (51.0%)
#Most outside searches stopped in mid-June 2026
Other agencies ran 37,979 of the 40,470 network searches (93.8%). Most of those searches stopped in the second half of June 2026. From May 1 to June 14, 69 outside agencies ran 8,957 searches. From June 22 to July 31, nine outside agencies ran 1,374. St Paul MN PD, Coon Rapids MN PD, Anoka County MN SO, and Crow Wing County MN SO all made their last searches on June 16 or 17.
The nine agencies that kept searching were Dakota County MN SO, Elk River MN PD, Fridley MN PD, Grand Rapids MN PD, Hopkins MN PD, Lake City MN PD, Isanti County MN SO, West Saint Paul MN PD, and Wright County MN SO.
#Search types
Network audit
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| lookup | 32,393 | 80.0% |
| search | 5,524 | 13.6% |
| search - Mobile | 1,539 | 3.8% |
| lookup - Mobile | 955 | 2.4% |
| freeform | 32 | 0.1% |
| visual | 11 | <0.1% |
| convoy | 11 | <0.1% |
| multiGeo | 3 | <0.1% |
| searchSummary - Mobile | 2 | <0.1% |
Organization audit
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| lookup | 1,489 | 63.9% |
| search | 615 | 26.4% |
| lookup - Mobile | 185 | 7.9% |
| search - Mobile | 43 | 1.8% |
#Top searching agencies
Agencies that searched South Saint Paul’s network, from the network audit.
| Agency | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| St Paul MN PD | 5,583 | 13.8% |
| Coon Rapids MN PD | 2,557 | 6.3% |
| South Saint Paul MN PD | 2,491 | 6.2% |
| Anoka County MN SO | 2,119 | 5.2% |
| Crow Wing County MN SO | 2,091 | 5.2% |
| Grand Rapids MN PD | 1,929 | 4.8% |
| Roseville MN PD | 1,894 | 4.7% |
| Paul Bunyan Task Force MN | 1,684 | 4.2% |
| Dakota County MN SO | 1,284 | 3.2% |
| St. Louis Park MN PD | 1,246 | 3.1% |
| Woodbury MN DPS | 1,226 | 3.0% |
| Pine County MN SO | 1,196 | 3.0% |
| West Saint Paul MN PD | 1,156 | 2.9% |
| Hopkins MN PD | 931 | 2.3% |
| New Hope MN PD | 931 | 2.3% |
| Other (70 agencies) | 12,152 | 30.0% |
All but two agencies are in Minnesota. New Richmond WI PD ran 24 searches. North MO DTF Brookfield MO PD ran 2.
#Top operators
The organization audit names 34 South Saint Paul Flock users. The network audit redacts all names.
| Operator | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Tory Nelson | 370 | 15.9% |
| Dylan Christensen | 350 | 15.0% |
| Mariah Latuff | 248 | 10.6% |
| Melissa Gruenewald | 212 | 9.1% |
| James Silda | 147 | 6.3% |
| Joseph Earl | 95 | 4.1% |
| Jonathan Weight | 92 | 3.9% |
| Charles Gelhaye | 92 | 3.9% |
| Emily Danner | 81 | 3.5% |
| Kurtis Syvertsen | 73 | 3.1% |
| Other (24 operators) | 572 | 24.5% |
#Reasons
Reasons are grouped by the Flock category before the dash. Free-text reasons with no category, such as “theft”, appear as written.
Network audit
| Reason | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen | 3,004 | 7.4% |
| Larceny/Theft Offenses | 2,586 | 6.4% |
| Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive) | 2,572 | 6.4% |
| Drugs/Narcotics | 2,514 | 6.2% |
| Weapons Offense (Guns/Shots Fired) | 1,942 | 4.8% |
| Assault/Battery Offenses | 1,804 | 4.5% |
| City Planning/Traffic Analysis | 1,527 | 3.8% |
| Stolen Property Offenses | 1,248 | 3.1% |
| Missing/Endangered Person/Runaway | 1,119 | 2.8% |
| Other | 891 | 2.2% |
| Burglary/Breaking & Entering | 819 | 2.0% |
| Homicide/Death Investigation | 797 | 2.0% |
| Investigation | 784 | 1.9% |
| Assault/Battery Offenses (Domestic) | 761 | 1.9% |
| Obstructing the Police (Fleeing/Eluding) | 742 | 1.8% |
| All other reasons (1,870 values) | 17,360 | 42.9% |
Organization audit
| Reason | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive) | 327 | 14.0% |
| Larceny/Theft Offenses | 183 | 7.8% |
| Drugs/Narcotics | 178 | 7.6% |
| Burglary/Breaking & Entering | 153 | 6.6% |
| Weapons Offense (Guns/Shots Fired) | 147 | 6.3% |
| Traffic Infraction | 128 | 5.5% |
| theft | 105 | 4.5% |
| Assault/Battery Offenses (Domestic) | 104 | 4.5% |
| Assault/Battery Offenses | 88 | 3.8% |
| Obstructing the Police (Fleeing/Eluding) | 83 | 3.6% |
| Stolen Property Offenses | 58 | 2.5% |
| Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen | 54 | 2.3% |
| investigation | 39 | 1.7% |
| Hit and Run/Car Accident | 39 | 1.7% |
| Criminal Motor Vehicle Offense (incl. Road Rage/Reckless) | 31 | 1.3% |
| All other reasons (106 values) | 615 | 26.4% |
#Report highlights
#Immigration
Fourteen network audit records cite immigration or an ICE detainer. South Saint Paul’s own Flock users ran none of them.
- Mille Lacs County MN SO ran 10 searches with the reason “Immigration (civil/administrative)” in mid-January 2026.
- Montevideo MN PD ran one search with the reason “Immigration (criminal)” in late January 2026.
- Crow Wing County MN SO ran one search with the reason “Immigration (civil/administrative) - HSI” in February 2026.
- North MO DTF Brookfield MO PD ran two searches with the reason “ICE detainer” in late October 2025. Each search covered 25,263 networks.
Three more searches name HSI under other categories: two by St Paul MN PD and one by Brooklyn Center MN PD.
#Low-level offenses
The network audit has 653 searches under Traffic Infraction, 112 that mention dumping or littering, 68 that mention shoplifting, and 56 that mention trespassing. In the organization audit, South Saint Paul’s Flock users ran 128 Traffic Infraction searches and 41 searches that mention dumping or littering. Thirty of those 41 carry the reason “Criminal Motor Vehicle Offense (incl. Road Rage/Reckless) - dumping complaint”.
#Anomalies
#Missing dates
The network audit for April 2026 covers April 1 through 17 only. No network records exist for April 18 through 30. The organization audit starts in November 2025, three months after the network audit.
#Test records
The network audit has 56 records with “test” in the reason, not counting searches for cars taken on test drives. Crow Wing County MN SO ran 42 of them. One South Saint Paul search on April 7, 2026 carries the reason “City Planning/Traffic Analysis - System Test”. It appears in both audits.