{"id":426191,"date":"2026-09-04T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:34:09","slug":"2-8m-traffic-camera-system-approved-by-san-antonio-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426191\/","title":{"rendered":"$2.8M traffic-camera system approved by San Antonio City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-1211357326-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"$2.8M traffic-camera system approved by San Antonio City Council\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0San Antonio City Council is approving a contract for a new automatic license plate reader-style camera system intended to improve traffic management at intersections.<\/p>\n<p>Cost: About $2.8 million through September 2028.<br \/>\nPurpose: Detect vehicles at intersections so traffic signals can be adjusted to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion and vehicle emissions.<br \/>\nNo vehicle data collection: City officials said the cameras will not record vehicles or collect vehicle information or data.<br \/>\nNot Flock: The system is separate from Flock cameras, which have generated controversy in San Antonio.<br \/>\nInstallation\/maintenance: The city\u2019s Public Works Department will oversee the system.<br \/>\nFunding: Money comes from the city\u2019s 2026 General Fund.<br \/>\nPossible extension: The city can renew the contract for two additional years for an estimated $561,000.<br \/>\nDeployment: Cameras are expected to be installed at intersections throughout San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1460\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Bottom line: Despite the \u201cautomatic license plate reader\u201d terminology, the city says this particular system is being deployed as a traffic-signal management tool, not a law-enforcement surveillance system. The key issue to watch will be whether the system actually avoids storing or transmitting identifiable vehicle data as officials have stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1460\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Stay tuned to 500 KTSA and FM 107.1 for the latest in this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0San Antonio City Council is approving a contract for a new automatic license plate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[148186,4519,63401,82,84,83,272],"class_list":["post-426191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-camera-system","tag-city-council","tag-license-plate","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426191","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=426191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}