Data update: Ventura CA PD (June 2026)

Records from Ventura CA PD were added. Ventura (officially San Buenaventura) is a city of roughly 110,000 in Ventura County on the Southern California coast, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Jul 1, 2023 – Apr 28, 2026
• Records: 94,295
• License plate attached: 67,441 (71.5%)
• Records with case number: 9,310 (9.9%)

#Search types

#Users

No user names are redacted in this production. All 94,295 records carry a named user. Dan Ketchum leads with 12,340 searches — 13.1% of all records across the ~33-month production. Matthew Logsdon follows with 10,476. Together these two users account for nearly a quarter of all searches (24%).

#Reasons

WANTED in its many capitalizations and variants (WANTED, wanted, Wanted, WANTED SUBJECT, wanted subject) totals roughly 22,100 records — about 23% of the dataset. Theft appears as STOLEN/stolen/Stolen (~2,200 records combined) and as California Penal Code 10851 (913 records, vehicle taking without consent). susp veh (590) and SUSPECT (545) are among the remaining common free-text entries.

#Repeated plate searches

Several plates appear hundreds of times in the dataset, searched repeatedly across many distinct days and shifts. All plates are identified by their anonymized hash.

e5c2835b (surveillance info) was searched approximately 1,566 times across 18+ users over two years (December 2023 – December 2025), spread across 36 distinct days. Dan Ketchum accounts for 1,000 of those searches — tagged WANTED SUBJECT or WANTED.

cbb7ebac (surveillance info) was searched 322 times by Dan Ketchum across 21 days over 8 months (December 2023 – August 2024), all tagged WANTED SUBJECT.

6b45b2f0 (surveillance info) was searched 338 times by Matthew Logsdon across 59 distinct days over 8 months (March – November 2024), tagged wanted throughout.

b0d7b132 (surveillance info) was searched 445 times by Matthew Logsdon across 33 days over 5 months (May – September 2025), tagged WANTED.

b0274d0a (surveillance info) was searched 428 times by Matthew Logsdon across 37 days over 3 months (July – October 2025), tagged WANTED.

Note: these are identifiers corresponding to the plates and for use on haveibeenflocked.com; they are not the actual plates

#Records by year

#Monthly counts

August–September 2025 stand out with 4,786 and 5,139 searches respectively — roughly double the typical monthly rate. October 2023 was the lowest month at 951 searches.