04/18/2026
These stats coming from our councilwoman is damning. Come out to city council THIS TUESDAY @ 6:45PM , and speak out against these devices infringing on our constitutional privacy rights.
THE CITY OF KYLE IS PAYING $1,425,798 TO TRACK YOU.
AND THEY WANT TO SPEND MORE.
TELL THEM TO SAY NO TO ITEM 4!
ON TUES, APRIL 21, KYLE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE VOTING ON WHETHER TO EXPAND MASS SURVEILLANCE.
I requested our Flock ALPR audit logs from Kyle Police Department from January - March of this year, and here is what I found directly in those audits. These numbers are Kyle specific.
1️⃣ First, WHAT ARE AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS (ALPRs)?
An ALPR is a camera mounted on a pole that automatically photographs every vehicle that drives past, 24/7. It records your plate, date, time, location, make, model, color, stickers, dents, markings, and bike racks.
They are clustered near our busiest intersections, and a private company backed by a co-founder of Palantir based in Atlanta, Georgia called Flock Safety owns them.
2️⃣ FLOCK OWNS THE CAMERAS THAT TRACK ME?
YES‼️
In our contract, Flock owns all the equipment, and we pay a subscription for their surveillance software.
$1,425,798 of your tax-payer money is being used to fund this surveillance subscription service.
“Isn’t it grant funded?”
🆘 Grants only cover 80% of initial purchases. They do not cover fees or charges after. To date, grants have only covered $314,792 of the costs.
3️⃣ AM I BEING TRACKED?
YES, REPEATEDLY‼️
On any given day in February, 93,536 unique individual plates were tracked, sometimes meaning entire households. That is nearly one hundred thousand households tracked per day.
Most households get captured multiple times on a typical trip to the grocery store, school, or a doctor’s appointment.
🆘 With 38 ALPRs, Kyle is the most surveilled city per capita in Central Texas
4️⃣ WHAT ABOUT MY DATA?
IT GETS BAD‼️
Flock has a permanent, irrevocable right to use it to train their AI, even after Kyle cancels the contract. Kyle cannot delete it. They can share your data with the federal government based solely on their own judgment, without notifying Kyle first.
🆘 Even worse, Kyle PD’s own policy states that officers are not required to have reasonable suspicion or probable cause before searching for your location.
IS THIS CATCHING CRIMINALS?
002% OF THE TIME ‼️
Over three months, the system flagged 162 alerts out of 7.2 million unique individual scans.
🆘 99.998% of your location data has no purpose.
Kyle’s crime rate before AND after ALPRs has been 50-70% lower than the statewide or national average. The facts don’t support claims that surveillance makes us more safe.
5️⃣ HAS FLOCK BEEN USED TO HUNT DOWN IMMIGRANTS?
YES. 116 TIMES IN JANUARY ‼️
Agencies across the nation have accessed Kyle’s network of cameras to hunt down immigrants. 116 searches were performed in January by 18 agencies across 10 states — most outside of Texas.
🆘 An officer from Tennessee ran a nationwide search, accessing Kyle’s network, for a “suspicious female filming a traffic stop and making comments about ICE”.
It is your right to film an officer, but apparently you can still be tracked down for it.
🚫 WANT TO PUT A STOP TO IT? 🚫
Show up at Kyle City Hall to provide public comment on Tuesday, April 21. Show up at 6:30 to fill out a form!
OR
Send an email to City Council at [email protected]
Say NO to Item 4
