Pflugerville Kills Flock Camera Deal After 1.6 Million Outside Searches Surface Natalie Petrovich August 26, 2026 Pflugerville's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, pulling the plug on the city's network of automated license plate reader cameras after a resident's records request revealed that hundreds of outside law enforcement agencies had been quietly mining the system's data for months. Before the council even took its vote, City Manager James Hartshorn had already ordered staff to physically cover the camera lenses and shut the system down. [...] The discovery traces back to Pflugerville resident Sam Aly, who filed a Texas Public Information Act request and uncovered that between February 16 and August 15, 459 outside law enforcement agencies conducted nearly 1.6 million searches of the city's camera network. The same records showed a staggering imbalance: Pflugerville police ran 5,078 searches over that six-month span, while external agencies ran 1,597,918 — roughly 315 outside searches for every one conducted by local police, per the same audit data reported by Community Impact. City officials had previously assured residents that nationwide data sharing had been turned off. [...] https://hoodline.com/2026/08/pflugerville-kills-flock-camera-deal-after-1-6-...