Central Texas cities plan tech restrictions after cutting ties with Flock Safety
The short version: KXAN reports Pflugerville and Lago Vista officials are ditching Flock Safety and moving to write actual restrictions on surveillance tech into local policy.
Our Take
Credit to KXAN for getting these mayors on record. It's one thing for a city council to quietly let a Flock contract lapse; it's another for local officials to say out loud that ALPR surveillance clashes with what their residents expect from local government. That's a meaningful shift in Central Texas, a region that's been thick with Flock cameras for years.
What matters here isn't just two small cities pulling cameras down — it's the follow-through. Cutting ties with a vendor is easy to reverse next budget cycle unless it's backed by actual policy: data retention limits, audit requirements, bans on out-of-state data sharing, real teeth. That's the harder fight, and it's the one worth watching in Pflugerville and Lago Vista going forward.
If you want to see how saturated your own city is with plate readers, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for your council to have this same reckoning, our take-action page has steps for pushing back before the cameras go up, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of KXAN, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.