Flack for Flock Cameras in Central Texas
The short version: Austin PBS reports Central Texas towns are dropping Flock contracts, but the cameras rarely disappear — they just get rebranded or relocated.
Our Take
Credit to Austin PBS for digging into something we see over and over: a city council votes to cut ties with Flock, local news runs a victory lap, and then the cameras quietly stay up anyway — sometimes under a new vendor, sometimes moved a few blocks over, sometimes absorbed by a neighboring jurisdiction's contract. "Canceling" an ALPR deal is easy to announce and hard to actually verify, which is exactly why these stories matter more than a headline suggests.
Central Texas is a useful case study because it shows how fragmented and opaque this surveillance network really is. No single city council controls whether your plate gets logged — a county sheriff, a HOA, or a regional task force can keep feeding data into the same dragnet even after your own town walks away. That's the structural problem: these systems are designed to outlast political pushback, and "bailing on a contract" doesn't mean the scanning stops.
If you're in the Austin area or anywhere nearby, don't take a press release at face value — check our camera map to see what's actually operating near you, and if you want to push back on a renewal or a quiet relocation, our take-action page has steps for making noise at the next council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Austin PBS, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.