ee Ann Burnett Joins Get It Right Texoma — Gas Prices, Flock Cameras & Local Fire Department Wins

Our Take

Credit to Get It Right Texoma for putting Flock cameras on the same agenda as gas prices and fire department budgets — because that's exactly where this issue belongs: kitchen-table local news, not some abstract tech debate. When a weekly community podcast in North Texas/Southern Oklahoma is fielding questions about ALPR networks alongside pocketbook issues, it tells you this surveillance infrastructure has quietly become a normal part of life in small towns, often without the public conversation it deserves.

We don't have the full transcript and won't pretend to, but the pattern is familiar: local governments install these cameras fast, usually with a vendor pitch about stolen cars and Amber Alerts, and the retention policies, data-sharing agreements, and audit logs get far less airtime than the sales pitch did. If Texoma is wrestling with this now, it's worth asking who approved it, what the contract says, and who can access the plate reads beyond the police department that signed off.

If you're in a town having this exact conversation, don't let it stay a podcast topic — check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and use our take-action guide to push your council for transparency before the next contract renewal.