JimmieJoe / KC6YRU

In April of 2026, I made a public records request of the Visalia Police Department. One of the things I asked for in that request was the logs of every outside agency that accessed the data collected by Visalia’s police department. I didn’t expect the sheer size of the results. I received audit logs for 18 months, running to tens of thousands of pages. I’m going to look at the latest (and biggest) of those files here.

From May 1, 2026 through June 1, 2026, there were 507,696 “hits” on the Flock data collected by Visalia PD. I’ve tallied the results to see who is searching license plate files (and other search terms) in Visalia. (Visalia accessed it’s own data 1,634 times in that month)

The biggest searcher was the California Highway Patrol, at 46,693 inquiries in just that one month’s time. Riverside County Sheriff’s Office was next, at 42,957.

There’s no way they thought vehicles they were “checking” for were in Visalia over 40,000 times each. It looks very much as if they simply have “all” selected for any search they do. Other agencies on down the list seem to be a bit more circumspect in their searches, but still cast wide nets when they do a Flock search.

Here’s a .txt file with the list, followed by an Excel list.

May 2026 audit

Beginning Search Time: May 1, 2026, 07:00:00 AM UTC
Ending Search Time: June 1, 2026, 06:59:59 AM UTC
Unique organizations: 309
Records tallied: 507,696

Org Name Tally

There are 209 additional unique organizations with counts ranging from 899 down to 1. You can see the entire list in the Excel file.

Here are my previous Flock-related posts:

• What the Flock?
• Well, Flock Me!
• More Flock, more fun
• Flock you later
• Flock the Lawyers
• Flock Me A Little Bit
• Tick tock tick Flock
• The Final Flock – and the answer is “NO”
• Hidden in the Flock
• Reason me this, Flock
• Flock Me – Round 2
• Another Flock of Cameras in Visalia
• The Flock Was Startled