Data update: Tonawanda NY (Mar 2026)

Fourteen months of audit data from Tonawanda Town, New York PD were added, covering January 2025 through mid-February 2026. The data was provided in two forms: organization audit logs (Tonawanda PD’s own searches) and network audit logs (all agencies searching Tonawanda’s cameras).

Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Jan 2025 – Feb 2026 (14 months)
• Records: 6,465
• Officers: 84

Tonawanda PD’s own usage peaked in July–August 2025 (780 and 777 searches) and declined sharply after October, dropping to 169 in January 2026 and 94 in the partial February file.

Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Jan 2025 – Feb 2026 (14 months)
• Records: 4,814,225
• Organizations: ~4,886

Tonawanda Town NY PD itself accounted for 6,572 of the 4.8M searches (0.14%). The top searchers were Houston TX PD (185,946), Dallas TX PD (80,536), and NYS Crime Analysis Center Network (57,788).

Weekly search volume held steady between 70K–160K through most of 2025, then fell off a cliff in late November — from 96K in the week of November 17 to 11K the following week, and under 3K/week from December onward. Whether this reflects a real change in network activity or an issue with Flock’s audit export tooling is not yet clear.

Shared networks

A separate file lists 546 organizations that share their camera networks with Tonawanda. Tonawanda shares its own network with 31 organizations.

Report highlights

Running the same pattern matching used by our existing reports against the network audit files. Once imported, these records will appear in the full reports linked below (filtered to Tonawanda Town NY PD as the source organization).

Develop PC / MYOC

1,947 records contain language suggesting officers used Flock to develop probable cause. “MYOC” (Make Your Own [Probable] Cause) appeared 1,463 times. Top agencies: Downers Grove IL PD (254), Will County IL SO (213), and Houston TX PD (147). Examples:

• Will County IL SO: “MYOC 28 Expired - FTA Poss Meth”
• Wichita KS PD: “The registered owner of this black ford escape has a felony pick up. Develop pc prior to stopping”
• Wood Dale IL PD: “MYOC - Suspected Drug Dealer/User”

Immigration

~2,329 records match immigration-related terms. Florida Highway Patrol leads with 472 records, followed by Lowndes County GA SO (424) and Jacksonville FL SO (166). ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) appeared 242 times. Texas Department of Public Safety contributed 117 records, many using the structured “Immigration (criminal) - Criminal Justice Purpose” reason format.

Low-level offenses

~3,443 records involve low-level infractions: trespassing (~1,007), OD/overdose (~894), wrong tag (~298), and prostitution (~168). Metropolitan Washington DC PD was the top contributor (321), followed by Milledgeville GA PD (77) and Nebraska State Patrol (64).

Profiling

~3,342 records matched profiling patterns, predominantly from the “gang/club” subcategory (~2,918). Missouri State Highway Patrol contributed multiple “OMG - Pagans” (outlaw motorcycle gang) entries.

First Amendment

~816 records matched First Amendment-related terms. Corrections departments dominated — Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction (191 “Drone Conveyance” records), Indiana Dept. of Corrections (102), and Georgia Dept. of Corrections (35). Beyond drone surveillance: Lubbock TX PD contributed 63 protest-related records, and Berrien County MI SO contributed 47.

Anomalies

Excel row limit truncation

Every network audit file contains exactly 1,048,575 rows — Excel’s maximum. The files appear to have been redacted in Excel by replacing all license plate values with ***, which extended the used range to the row limit. Each file contains between 5,684 and 688K actual search records; the remaining rows are empty except for *** in the License Plate column.

For January and February 2025 (631K and 688K real rows), the padding may have consumed rows that would otherwise contain search data, meaning those months are likely incomplete.

Search volume cliff

Network search volume dropped from ~96K/week in mid-November 2025 to under 3K/week by December. The organization audit shows a similar decline in Tonawanda’s own searches over the same period. It is not yet clear whether this reflects an actual change in network activity, a change in Flock’s audit export behavior, or both.

Future-dated time frame starts (2036)

Twenty records across all files have the Time Frame start date set to the year 2036, while the Time Frame end and Search Time fields contain normal 2025/2026 dates.

Test records

17,883 records across all files contain test-related reasons. St. Charles County MO PD leads with 2,821, followed by Galveston County TX SO (307), Columbia County GA SO (239), and Harris County Const TX Pct 4 (209).

Schema changes

The organization audit files changed schema four times over 14 months: columns were added, removed, and reordered between January 2025 and February 2026. The network audit files maintained a consistent schema throughout.