Posted on 08/28/2026 11:07:20 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
Following a vote to suspend the use of Flock cameras in the city, Pflugerville said over 400 agencies had accessed its Flock system, while only 83 had authorization.
The city said it had authorized 83 partner agencies to have access to its Flock system, which included select Texas police departments, universities and state agencies.
This new information comes after Pflugerville City Council members unanimously voted to terminate their master services agreement with Flock Safety at their Tuesday night meeting, resulting in the city turning off all 28 Flock License Plate Reader cameras leased by the city and covering them with plastic bags.
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It’s not just about looking for expired and stolen tags, it’s a domestic intelligence collection system.
And their Freedom hating 5th column.
But they are necessary for out safety aren’t they?
Don’t you want to be safe?
/s of course
“it’s a domestic intelligence collection system.” Exactly. All those behemoth data centers that have begun littering the landscape aren’t to store vacation fotos and cat videos. And already the Flock databases are being misused by members of “law enforcement” stalking their wives and girlfriends.
First and Foremost, correct.
Privacy of any sort is an almost quaint notion in these ‘mondern’ times...
Why would universities use this system?
is there any relationship between the rising numbers of these cameras and the rising number of illegal alien arrests?
Part of the problem with Flock is the have said they will restrict access etc... “if requested to do so”. It’s up to each jurisdiction to proactively protect their citizens data vs. it automatically occurring.
If not requested, or something is done the right way, everyone gets a peek.
Yep. Flock getting hacked is SSDD.
This....
The city said it had authorized 83 partner agencies to have access to its Flock system, which included select Texas police departments, universities and state agencies.
Why are universities and non-police state agencies being given access?
I would also kind of like to know why even the police are given access without a warrant but that ship has apparently sailed.
Everyone commits me kind of “crime”...somewhat frequently. These unConstitutional cameras will give data gatherers ammunition with which to harass/intimidate you when they feel like it. These must be taken down everywhere.
I agree with the statement: 'you have no expectation of privacy in public'. But only at its basic level.
When there is a digital equivalent of a Stasi informant recording what you do, where you go, what you say, building a dossier on you, for no other reason because it can, and that dossier can potentially be used against you for some infraction at a later date (real, manufactured, or imagined), that's a problem. A big problem.
I suggest looking up the origins of the word panopticon.
If someone was tracking you, and recording everywhere you went, they can get smashed with a stalking charge. But because its decentralized(all over the place and not actively following you) and cameras, apparently it’s okay.
even on the interstates? please think about it.
Pflugerville is a suburb of Austin and part of the Austin–Round Rock– Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located 18 miles north of Austin.
One thing they won’t be used for is providing evidence of ballot harvesting. But they could
Why are universities looking at the cameras?
That’s China.
Good one. I'll have to remember it as part of the problem here.
My preferred method of general behavior control would be to have a situation where you know everyone is armed - an armed society is a polite society, as they say.
But government has been intent on scaring people out of being armed and prosecuting people for defending themselves.
That same government then wants a surveillance system to "reduce crime".
A government solution to a government created problem...
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