{"id":183499,"date":"2026-02-27T20:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/183499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:54:06","slug":"should-the-city-of-el-paso-keep-or-remove-controversial-surveillance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/183499\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the City of El Paso keep or remove controversial surveillance program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 On Tuesday, the City Council is set to discuss whether El Paso will continue using FLOCK cameras, an automated license plate reader, after people have raised privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>On the City&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotexas.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official website<\/a>, a Frequently Asked Questions document addresses some of these concerns, stressing that the technology is used only to read license plates after a crime has occurred, not for immigration enforcement, and that the data is secured and not accessible to the public or to people without approved access.<\/p>\n<p>However, KFOX14\/CBS4 would like to hear from you, <\/p>\n<p>Do you think The City should keep or remove FLOCK cameras?<\/p>\n<p> Below is the FAQ sheet the City provided:<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-challenges-state-approved-texas-gas-service-rate-increase-after-pricey-bills-tx-railroad-commission-mayor-renard-johnson?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso challenges state-approved Texas Gas Service rate increase after pricey bills<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-electric-customers-to-see-bill-credits-in-march-april-and-may-company-says-texas-tx-ep-epepublic-utility-commission-puct?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Electric customers to see bill credits in March, April and May, company says <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 On Tuesday, the City Council is set to discuss whether El Paso will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-183499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}