Data update: Woodbury MN DPS (June 2026)

Records from Woodbury MN Department of Public Safety were added. Woodbury is a suburb of approximately 75,000 in Washington County, east of St. Paul on the Wisconsin border.

#Organization audit

• Type: Organization audit
• Timespan: Jan 1, 2025 – Feb 2026
• Records: 11,407
• License plate attached: 7,818 (68.5%)
• Records with case number: 1,777 (15.6%)

#Search types

#Officers

All username fields in the production are redacted. No individual-level breakdown is possible.

#Reasons

Reason strings are an inconsistent mix of Flock’s structured dropdown values and free-text entries. Common informal entries include theft, KOPS, kops alert, traffic, stolen, test, and wanted. KOPS and its variants appear across approximately 910 records (~8%) — officers reviewing or acting on automated Keep Our People Safe alerts. Case number 25014867 appears as the reason field in 158 records, indicating a single investigation with repeated plate searches over the year.

#KOPS

Per the Cottage Grove Journal’s reporting:

Woodbury is also working with new technology at specific high traffic areas around town. These areas have high retail traffic and now also have a new camera system that is set up to scan the license plates of all vehicles that enter the area. The system will trigger an alert to a nearby officer if a license plate comes back as a stolen plate or a stolen car. It will also search for felony warrants and for Keeping Our Police Safe (KOPS) alerts. A KOPS alert is a warning to officers based on previous interactions with suspects or criminals and their likeliness to resort to violent actions. This allows officers to coordinate a response and oftentimes make an arrest at a parked vehicle. This program has been very successful so far resulting in dozens of recovered stolen vehicles and arrests.

This may explain the high number of “KOPS” instances seen in reason fields. The relationship between officer safety and the increase in stolen vehicles recovered is not explained by the Journal or the data.

#Monthly counts

#Network audit

• Type: Network audit
• Timespan: Jan 2025 – Feb 2026
• Records: 3,817,002
• Organizations: 4,302 (2025); 78 (Jan–Feb 2026)

As of January 27, 2026, the Woodbury network is shared with 527 agencies.

#Search types

#Top searchers (2025)

Houston TX PD alone accounts for 625,213 searches — 16.4% of all 2025 network queries — from 1,200 miles away. The US Postal Inspection Service, a federal agency, ran 29,953 searches.

In January–February 2026 (post-restriction), the top searchers are St. Paul MN PD (1,099), Hennepin County MN SO (976), and Woodbury MN DPS (918).

#Access restriction

The data shows two distinct phases of contraction:

The first contraction — between May and June 2025 — cut the number of accessing agencies by roughly 90% (from ~3,100–3,500/month to ~330–490/month), while raw query volume fell by only about 35%.

A subset of high-volume agencies continued searching at similar or greater rates after most agencies lost access. The second contraction — December 2025 — collapsed query volume by ~95% (287K → 13K) and further reduced the agency pool to 314, then to 78 by January 2026.

The pattern is consistent with what has been observed on other networks around this period.

#MYOC / Develop PC

1,474 records match MYOC or “develop PC” language.

Reason strings range from alert-based entries (“MYOC/DRUG USE BT17221 - 2025-04-13T07:31:52”) to free-text entries with complete target details “White Honda CR-V texas temp plate 7815l96. develop pc. possible driver [full name] [birth date] felony warrants.” (Houston TX PD, appearing multiple times across search sessions).

#Immigration enforcement

2,823 records carry immigration-related reason strings.

In the 2026 network window, Mille Lacs County MN SO added 10 searches tagged Immigration (civil/administrative) -, concentrated on January 16 (8 searches between 2–7 AM UTC) and January 19. This was the same day more than a dozen MSP Airport employees were taken by ICE.