Carrollton Votes to Keep Flock Cameras. Carrollton, TX police
The short version: Carrollton City Council voted to consolidate its Flock ALPR contracts, doubling down on blanket license-plate surveillance instead of scaling it back.
Our Take
Credit to Carrollton City Limits for actually showing up to a city council meeting and filming what most residents never see: a routine vote that quietly expands the surveillance net over their town. "Consolidating contracts" sounds like bureaucratic housekeeping, but in practice it means Carrollton is locking itself deeper into Flock Safety's business model — more cameras, more data sharing agreements, more permanence, less scrutiny.
The "beware criminals" framing is the same pitch every city gets before it signs on the dotted line, but these systems don't just watch criminals — they log every plate, every driver, every trip, for everyone who drives through town, whether they've ever done anything wrong or not. That data doesn't stay local either; Flock's network sharing means a Carrollton camera can feed queries from agencies all over the country, with little public accounting for who's looking or why.
If you live in or near Carrollton, check our camera map to see exactly where these readers are going up, and head to our take-action page for concrete ways to push back before "consolidation" becomes permanent infrastructure nobody voted to normalize.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Carrollton City Limits, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.