Horizon City Police Department continues use of Flock cams

Our Take

Credit to KTSM 9 News for spotlighting a pattern we see all over the country: one jurisdiction backs away from Flock Safety, and a neighboring department quietly digs in. When the State of Texas and the City of El Paso both stepped back from their Flock partnerships, that should have been a signal. Instead, Horizon City PD is choosing to keep the cameras running, which means drivers passing through one corner of the region are still getting logged even as the surrounding area moves the other way.

This is exactly why patchwork policy doesn't work for ALPR networks. A car doesn't stop respecting jurisdiction lines just because the county seat pulled its cameras. If Horizon City keeps feeding plate scans into Flock's system, that data can still end up shared across a much wider network than local officials might admit to residents. Bigger picture, when a state and a major city both step back and a small department doesn't, it's worth asking what's driving that decision and who's accountable for it.

Local reporting like this is often the only way residents even learn where these cameras still operate. Check our camera map to see what's tracked near you, and if Horizon City's continued use bothers you, our take-action page has steps for pushing back at the city council level.