👀 FLOCK LOGIC City Council PUBLIC COMMENT and Camera Questions - Lago Vista, TX - 8/6/26
The short version: Lago Vista, TX residents packed council chambers and won a unanimous vote to dump Flock Safety cameras, proving public pressure still works.
Our Take
Credit to the channel THE TIME IS NOW for documenting what real accountability looks like: ordinary residents in Lago Vista, Texas showing up, speaking plainly, and asking their council why a private company should be building a permanent database of everyone's movements through town. No hysterics, just people asking basic questions about who owns the data, who can access it, and what happens when a surveillance vendor's business model outlives the public's consent to be watched.
The unanimous vote to end the Flock contract matters beyond one small Texas city. It's proof that these systems aren't inevitable — they're policy choices made by a handful of elected officials who can be persuaded, or embarrassed, into reversing course when constituents actually pay attention. The uploader's point about wishing voters decided these things directly is fair, but in the meantime, public comment periods are still one of the few levers citizens have before a contract gets renewed on autopilot.
If your town has ALPR cameras and you're wondering who put them there, check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, then use our take-action resources to show up at your own council meeting before the vote, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of THE TIME IS NOW, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.