Data update: Ukiah CA PD (Jan 2025–Apr 2026)

Records from the Ukiah CA PD were added, covering January 2025 through April 2026 for the organization audit and through May 2026 for the network audit. Ukiah is the county seat of Mendocino County, California, with a population of roughly 16,000, located about 115 miles north of San Francisco on US-101. Records were obtained via a public records request filed through MuckRock.

#Org audit

Type: Organization audit
Timespan: Jan 1, 2025 – Apr 30, 2026 (16 months)
Records: 15,016
Search types: search (6,707), lookup (5,062), lookup - Mobile (1,894), search - Mobile (1,352), searchSummary - Mobile (1)
Case # present: 425 (2.8%)

#Search types

Type	Count	%
search	6,707	44.7%
lookup	5,062	33.7%
lookup - Mobile	1,894	12.6%
search - Mobile	1,352	9.0%
searchSummary - Mobile	1	0.0%

#Top operators

Name	Searches
Eric Rodello	1,582
Zhonghao Chen	1,339
Stephanie Ellison	1,323
Alex Cowan	1,163
Hailey Gupta	732
Daniel Parker	668
Saul Perez	640
Ryan Michel	635
Christian Ballestrazze	606
AJ Randall	560
Anthony DeLapo	453
Jacob Newcomb	439
Tiffany McPherson	428
Ryan Breece	396
Sabrinna Parker	374

#Reasons

The dominant entry across all case variations is “invest” (and its variants “Invest,” “INVEST,” “inv,” “inves,” “invet,” “Inv”), accounting for roughly 7,900 records — about half the org audit. The structured dropdown reasons appear alongside these free-text entries.

Reason	Count	%
invest (all case variants)	7,908	52.7%
.	1,140	7.6%
inv / inves / invet / Inv	1,048	7.0%
Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive)	376	2.5%
Assault/Battery Offenses	183	1.2%
Drugs/Narcotics	248	1.7%
Traffic Infraction	237	1.6%
Criminal Motor Vehicle Offense	232	1.5%
Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen	129	0.9%
10851	128	0.9%
Hit and Run/Car Accident	86	0.6%
Other	3,301	22.0%

#Network audit

Type: Network audit
Timespan: Jan 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026 (17 months)
Records: 7,858,079
Search types: lookup (3,723,998), search (2,064,354), lookup - Mobile (1,573,036), search - Mobile (469,781), convoy (26,357), other (554)
Organizations (network): 3,414
License plate attached: 473,317 (6.0%)
Case # present: 3,060,189 (38.9%)
Operator names: redacted in all records (100%)

#Search types

Type	Count	%
lookup	3,723,998	47.4%
search	2,064,354	26.3%
lookup - Mobile	1,573,036	20.0%
search - Mobile	469,781	6.0%
convoy	26,357	0.3%
other	553	0.0%

#Top agencies searching Ukiah’s network

Agency	Searches	%
Riverside County CA SO	599,493	7.6%
California Highway Patrol	596,097	7.6%
San Francisco CA PD	536,851	6.8%
Orange County SO CA	310,368	3.9%
Los Angeles CA PD	302,493	3.8%
NCRIC	231,378	2.9%
Los Angeles County CA SD	195,943	2.5%
San Bernardino County CA SO	139,796	1.8%
Alameda County CA SO	136,905	1.7%
San Diego County CA SD	133,699	1.7%
City of Riverside CA PD	130,083	1.7%
Oakland CA PD	122,899	1.6%
Irvine CA PD	102,668	1.3%
Fremont CA PD	100,728	1.3%
Ontario CA PD	88,335	1.1%

#Reasons

Reason	Count	%
10851	166,859	2.1%
Investigation	128,428	1.6%
Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen	126,015	1.6%
investigation	116,067	1.5%
inv	104,752	1.3%
Drugs/Narcotics	82,999	1.1%
Larceny/Theft Offenses	76,361	1.0%
459	70,875	0.9%
Wanted Person (Arrest Warrant/Fugitive)	65,738	0.8%
211	50,685	0.6%
Inv	50,479	0.6%
Burglary/Breaking & Entering	47,237	0.6%
503	44,855	0.6%
Vehicle Theft	44,656	0.6%
BOLO/Wanted Vehicle	43,163	0.5%
Other	6,595,910	83.9%

#Anomalies

#Low case number coverage

Only 425 of 15,016 org audit records (2.8%) include a case number. The network audit coverage is higher at 38.9% (3,060,189 of 7,858,079), but this reflects activity by the full set of 3,414 agencies searching Ukiah’s camera network, not Ukiah PD’s own documentation practices.