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.
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:
| Type | Count | % |
|---|---|---|
| lookup | 356,862 | 68.6% |
| lookup - Mobile | 82,338 | 15.8% |
| search | 63,217 | 12.2% |
| search - Mobile | 16,977 | 3.3% |
| convoy | 578 | 0.1% |
| searchSummary - Mobile | 40 | <0.01% |
| freeform | 4 | <0.01% |
| multiGeo | 2 | <0.01% |
#Top searchers
| Organization | Searches |
|---|---|
| Louisville Metro KY PD | 12,596 |
| Hillsborough County FL SO | 10,218 |
| Michigan State Police | 8,914 |
| Chicago IL PD | 7,573 |
| Kansas Highway Patrol | 7,280 |
| Cleveland OH Division of Police | 7,201 |
| Indianapolis Metro PD IN | 6,494 |
| Illinois State Police | 6,375 |
| Joliet IL PD | 5,702 |
| Indiana State Police IN PD | 5,454 |
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
| Organization | Searches |
|---|---|
| Chicago IL PD | 7,573 |
| Illinois State Police | 6,375 |
| Joliet IL PD | 5,702 |
| Will County IL SO | 3,783 |
| Oak Brook IL PD | 3,597 |
| Schaumburg IL PD | 3,309 |
| Winnebago County IL SO | 3,075 |
| Bloomington IL PD | 2,966 |
| Lake County IL SO | 2,404 |
| Wilmette IL PD | 2,369 |
#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.
| Organization | Searches |
|---|---|
| Joliet IL PD | 1,816 |
| Oak Brook IL PD | 889 |
| Michigan State Police | 854 |
| Lexington KY PD | 626 |
| East Peoria IL PD | 600 |
| Steger IL PD | 523 |
| Warren MI PD | 446 |
| Kansas Highway Patrol | 424 |
| Schaumburg IL PD | 417 |
| Louisville Metro KY PD | 412 |
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.