Pflugerville, Texas just bagged the cameras. The City Council voted unanimously to dump its $87,500 Flock Safety contract after a resident’s records request showed what the “local” licence-plate network was really doing. In six months: • 459 outside agencies searched Pflugerville’s data • nearly 1.6 million times Pflugerville’s own police ran 5,078. Residents had been told nationwide sharing was off. It wasn’t. Out-of-state departments, railroad police, even agencies hundreds of miles away were rummaging through every plate those 28 cameras captured. The city manager ordered the network shut down and the lenses covered with plastic bags the same day. Flock says it was “statewide sharing.” The council called it an unregulated surveillance engine running without their consent. This is not one town having a wobble. Dozens of US cities are cancelling the same contracts. They sold it as catching criminals. What they built was a searchable map of every car that drove past.