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Data update: Wheaton IL PD (June 2026)

5,438 org audit records from Wheaton IL PD covering July–October 2024, with case numbers dominating reason strings.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Records from Wheaton IL PD were added, covering July through October 2024. Wheaton is the DuPage County seat, a suburb of roughly 54,000 residents about 25 miles west of Chicago.

The FOIA response came as four zip-compressed xlsx files, one per month, each containing a single “Organization Audit” sheet.

#Organization audit

  • Type: Organization audit (Wheaton PD’s own searches)
  • Timespan: Jul 1 – Oct 31, 2024 (~4 months)
  • Records: 5,438

The org audit records Wheaton PD’s own Flock searches — not the agencies that accessed Wheaton’s cameras (no network audit was produced in this request).

#Search types

TypeCount%
search4,58884.4%
lookup84915.6%
multiGeo1<0.1%

#Reasons

138 records (2.5%) have blank reason fields. The remaining entries are a mix of internal case numbers and informal free-text.

Top reason strings:

ReasonCount
WHPC2400007233
whpc2401681169
inv158
fleeing130
myoc122
Theft109
WHPC2401981108
spice boys99
whpc240167898
WHPC240140392
hit and run78
I1-24-016977
WHPC240135664
theft63
WHPC240217461

Case numbers in WHPC#### format (Wheaton Police Case) are the dominant entry type, indicating officers regularly used their case number as the reason string rather than a description. WHPC2400007 — a single case — accounts for 233 searches across the four months, suggesting sustained investigative attention. myoc (122 records) is a consistent but uninterpretable shorthand. spice boys appears 99 times as a freeform reason string, suggesting an ongoing narcotics-related investigation tracked informally across the four-month window.