Flock Audit Logs from Illinois Higher Education Institutions

Flock audit logs from US institutions of higher education in Illinois were obtained through public-records requests filed in 2025. License plate numbers have been redacted to protect individuals subjected to police surveillance. The dataset was authored by Torin Monahan and last updated on May 11, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns of police surveillance on university campuses based on the audit log data.
• Study the geographic and temporal distribution of automated license plate reader (ALPR) usage based on the Flock system logs.
• Assess the impact of public-records requests for transparency in government surveillance based on the dataset's origin.

Strengths

• Data was obtained through formal public-records requests, providing a documented legal provenance.
• Personally identifiable information (license plate numbers) has been redacted to protect privacy.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

ODUM Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Obtained from public institutions through public-records requests filed in 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 03:10:41

Geography

Illinois, United States