Flock cams help Lewisville police nab shooting suspect
The short version: CBS Texas touts a Lewisville shooting arrest via Flock cameras, but one solved case doesn't tell us how this dragnet is used on everyone else.
Our Take
Credit to CBS Texas for covering this Lewisville case, where police say Flock camera footage helped identify a suspect's vehicle after a shooting outside a Taco Hut. These stories make for good local news segments and good PR for Flock Safety — a violent crime, a quick lead, a tidy resolution. What they don't show is the other 99.9% of scans: the law-abiding commuters, churchgoers, and grocery shoppers whose plates get logged, timestamped, and stored every time they drive past one of these cameras, whether or not they're ever suspected of anything.
That's the trade-off departments rarely put on camera. One successful lead gets a press release and a news crew; the millions of innocent people swept into the same database get nothing — no notice, no opt-out, and in most cities, no real oversight of who can query that data, for how long it's kept, or whether it gets shared with ICE, bounty hunters, or other agencies outside the original purpose. Lewisville police are happy to talk about the win. They're much less eager to publish audit logs.
If you want to know whether Flock has rolled into your neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you'd rather your city debate this before adding more cameras instead of after, see our take-action resources for pushing your local council toward real transparency and accountability.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of CBS TEXAS, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.