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Data update: Wauconda IL PD (Apr 2026)

1.8K org audit records and 520K network audit records from Wauconda IL PD, with a notably high immigration search rate.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Records from the Wauconda IL PD were added. Wauconda is a village of roughly 14,000 residents in Lake County, Illinois, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago.

#Organization audit

  • Type: Organization audit
  • Timespan: Nov 2025 – Apr 4, 2026 (~5 months)
  • Records: 1,801

Wauconda PD’s own searches over the five-month period lean toward plate lookups (64.1%) over description searches (35.9%). Top search reasons reflect a typical suburban Illinois agency: theft and motor vehicle offenses dominate, followed by hit-and-run, criminal motor vehicle offenses, fleeing/eluding, missing persons, and traffic infractions.

#Network audit

  • Type: Network audit
  • Timespan: Jan 1–31, 2026
  • Records: 520,018
  • Organizations: 1,159

The network audit data covers only January 2026 — a single month, delivered in four weekly files. The org audit spans five months but no network data outside January was available in this release.

The first week (Jan 4) is a partial week starting January 1. Weekly volume for the three full weeks of mid-January ran 123,000–127,000 searches from roughly 1,033–1,035 agencies. The final entry (Feb 1) is also a partial week ending January 31.

#Search types

520,018 of the 1,042,360 raw records carry a search type; the remainder have no type field. Of the typed records:

TypeCount%
lookup356,86268.6%
lookup - Mobile82,33815.8%
search63,21712.2%
search - Mobile16,9773.3%
convoy5780.1%
searchSummary - Mobile40<0.01%
freeform4<0.01%
multiGeo2<0.01%

#Top searchers

OrganizationSearches
Louisville Metro KY PD12,596
Hillsborough County FL SO10,218
Michigan State Police8,914
Chicago IL PD7,573
Kansas Highway Patrol7,280
Cleveland OH Division of Police7,201
Indianapolis Metro PD IN6,494
Illinois State Police6,375
Joliet IL PD5,702
Indiana State Police IN PD5,454

Louisville Metro KY PD leads despite being roughly 350 miles south — consistent with its appearance as a top searcher at multiple other Illinois agencies in this dataset.

#Illinois agencies

OrganizationSearches
Chicago IL PD7,573
Illinois State Police6,375
Joliet IL PD5,702
Will County IL SO3,783
Oak Brook IL PD3,597
Schaumburg IL PD3,309
Winnebago County IL SO3,075
Bloomington IL PD2,966
Lake County IL SO2,404
Wilmette IL PD2,369

#Immigration enforcement

25,043 network audit searches — 4.8% of all records — reference immigration or HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) in their reason field. That rate is notably high compared with most other Illinois agencies in this dataset.

OrganizationSearches
Joliet IL PD1,816
Oak Brook IL PD889
Michigan State Police854
Lexington KY PD626
East Peoria IL PD600
Steger IL PD523
Warren MI PD446
Kansas Highway Patrol424
Schaumburg IL PD417
Louisville Metro KY PD412

Joliet IL PD ran 1,816 immigration-flagged searches through Wauconda’s cameras in a single month. Joliet — about 55 miles to the south — is a consistent presence in immigration-related searches across the Chicago metro Flock network. Oak Brook IL PD and Schaumburg IL PD also appear here, as they do in immigration tables for other Illinois agencies.