Another Texas city takes action to cover Flock surveillance cameras
The short version: A Texas city reportedly pushes back on Flock Safety ALPRs, and Will DuPree's reporting shows local pressure campaigns can actually move the needle.
Our Take
Credit to Will DuPree for keeping a camera on this story, because local fights over Flock Safety cameras rarely make the evening news outside the town where they happen. If another Texas city is genuinely reconsidering or restricting its ALPR network, that's a sign the grassroots pushback against blanket license plate surveillance is working in places that aren't exactly surveillance-skeptic strongholds.
We don't have the granular details of this particular city's decision, and we won't pretend otherwise. But the pattern across the country is consistent: once residents learn their plates are logged, time-stamped, and often shared with other agencies or federal databases without a warrant, many push back hard, and sometimes councils listen. Texas has become a real battleground state for this fight, with cities on both sides of the debate.
If you want to know whether Flock or similar ALPR systems are already watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push your city council the way this Texas community apparently did, our take-action page has the tools to get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Will DuPree, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.