8.20.2026: Texas Tech’s Puberty Blockers
The short version: Texas Scorecard's news roundup flags growing pushback on Flock cameras from two more Texas agencies, a sign local resistance keeps building.
Our Take
Buried in a Texas Scorecard roundup between a puberty-blocker scandal and a candidate's rap sheet is a line that matters more than its 40-second runtime suggests: two more Texas agencies are now taking a hard look at their Flock Safety contracts. We don't have the granular details the segment doesn't give us, but the pattern is the story here. Local officials from small-town councils to county commissioners keep getting asked uncomfortable questions about who's watching the cameras, who owns the data, and why a private company has a permanent eye on every car that passes through town.
Credit to Texas Scorecard for even treating ALPR scrutiny as newsworthy alongside bigger political fights. That's not nothing in a media landscape that usually treats these camera rollouts as routine infrastructure, not a surveillance expansion worth debating. Every agency that pauses, audits, or walks back a Flock deal is proof that public pressure works, and that elected officials are starting to feel it.
If you want to know whether your own city or county has quietly plugged into this network, check our camera map and see what's actually been installed near you. And if your local council hasn't had this conversation yet, our take-action resources can help you start it before the contract gets signed, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Texas Scorecard, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.