Community Impact reports that several Central Texas cities and counties have moved against their Flock Safety contracts, while others are keeping theirs. The changes range from full contract termination to a temporary pause.
The decisions don't share one date. San Marcos voted on Dec. 2, 2025, to cancel its contract, and the other actions in the source run from September to mid-October. Each local decision has its own outcome, so the list below keeps them separate.
Which Central Texas cities have ended their Flock contracts?
- Bastrop: On Sept. 8, the council voted to terminate the city's Flock contract and bar future deals with companies offering similar vehicle-surveillance services.
- Liberty Hill: On Sept. 9, the council unanimously voted to terminate its Flock contract and remove all city-owned ALPRs.
- Hays County: The county terminated its contract on Oct. 14, ending the use of six ALPRs.
- San Marcos: The council voted on Dec. 2, 2025, to cancel its Flock contract, which totaled $47,068.49.
Which cities paused cameras or are still deciding?
Leander's council voted on Sept. 3 to discontinue funding contracts and pause its 14 cameras. Kyle's council voted on Oct. 5 to suspend its ALPRs until a non-binding referendum in May. While the pause lasts, the cameras will not collect, capture, transmit or store license plate or vehicle data.
Kyle operates 38 ALPRs, 12 live feed cameras and two drones. The council did not vote on a motion to cancel its three active Flock contracts, which total $426,000 a year.
In New Braunfels, the program cannot be sustained by currently allocated general funds past a 90-day grace period, according to a Sept. 30 presentation to the council. Continuing it will require a new purchase order and state funding.
What changes for drivers?
Liberty Hill is removing its city-owned ALPRs, and Hays County's six ALPRs are no longer in use. Leander's 14 cameras are paused.
Cameras run by neighboring cities, the county, the state, businesses or HOAs stay where they are. The source does not report a change to those cameras. The source describes Buda and Bee Cave as still using ALPRs, and it does not report a decision to end the programs in Georgetown or Lakeway. No one can say from this roundup that a plate will stop being scanned, recorded or tracked.
To see where cameras are mapped near you, check the camera map. To understand how plate readers work, read how plate readers work.
What happens next?
The next date in the source is Kyle's referendum in May. Until then, the city's cameras stay suspended. In Cedar Park, a 30-day public comment period on the city's 22 Flock cameras opened Oct. 21.