City Council Meeting | September 8, 2026

Our Take

Buried between a flood-recovery update and a property-tax hearing, Kerrville's September 8 council meeting included a three-minute window that matters more than the agenda suggests: public comment on Flock Safety cameras. Credit to the City of Kerrville's own channel for keeping these meetings public and searchable, because it's exactly this kind of unglamorous local footage that shows how ALPR networks actually get approved — quietly, on a Tuesday night, sandwiched between proclamations.

We don't know yet what was said in Kerrville's comment period, and we're not going to guess. But the pattern is familiar: a city quietly signs a Flock contract, cameras start going up on residential streets and highway exits, and only later do residents show up to ask who's watching the data, how long it's kept, and whether police departments outside Kerrville can query it. Small Texas Hill Country towns are not exempt from the same national rollout that's put over 5,000 agencies on Flock's network — check our camera map to see if Kerrville already has readers logged.

If you're in Kerrville or anywhere else watching your council agenda fill up with a Flock line item, don't wait for the cameras to already be bolted to the pole. Public comment is the leverage point, and it works best before the vote, not after. Our take-action page has scripts and open-records templates other residents have used to push their own councils toward transparency — or a no vote.