Carrollton City Council votes to extend Flock camera contract | NBCDFW
The short version: Carrollton's council pushed through a 6-1 vote to extend its $1M+, 82-camera Flock deal, brushing aside public pushback to lock in more license-plate tracking.
Our Take
NBC DFW's report on Tuesday night's Carrollton City Council meeting captures the pattern we see again and again: a lopsided 6-1 vote, a contract worth more than a million dollars, and a chamber full of residents raising real concerns that got outvoted anyway. Credit to the NBC 5 team for actually airing the public comment — too many local outlets reduce these votes to a press release.
Eighty-two cameras is not a modest footprint for a city Carrollton's size. That's a dense enough network to reconstruct where a car — and the person driving it — goes on any given day, data that gets stored, shared across agencies, and queried far more often than most residents assume. 'Passionate public comments' is local-news shorthand for people showing up to say they don't want their movements logged by default, and it's worth asking what, if anything, council members actually said in response before casting their votes.
Contracts like this tend to get renewed quietly, in meetings most residents never watch, which is exactly why documentation matters. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and if you want to push back before your own council's next renewal vote, our take-action page has the tools to get organized.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NBC DFW, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.