{"id":407300,"date":"2026-08-15T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407300\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:32:13","slug":"3-harris-county-deputies-suspended-from-using-flock-camera-system-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407300\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Harris County Deputies Suspended from Using Flock Camera System | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harris County deputies have access to Flock system suspended pending an internal investigation. The news comes after a reporter inquiry about potentially questionable uses of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, a judge ruled a Pasadena officer will not face criminal prosecution accused of misusing the technology, accused of stalking a co-worker. Sgt. Michael Palitz resigned amid an internal probe back in September 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Flock Safety has come under scrutiny for privacy concerns, and law enforcement officers in Baytown and Fort Bend County are also being investigated for abusing the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office says in total, it manages 20 Flock Safety license plate reader networks with a combined total of 480 cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Getty <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County deputies have access to Flock system suspended pending an internal investigation. The news comes after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-407300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407300","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=407300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}