{"id":427553,"date":"2026-09-05T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427553\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T23:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:40:36","slug":"dallas-city-council-rejects-proposal-to-end-flock-camera-funding-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427553\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas City Council rejects proposal to end Flock camera funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oakcliff.advocatemag.com\/2026\/06\/judge-delays-vote-over-city-halls-future-with-temporary-restraining-order\/dallas-city-hall-with-flags-1-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90976 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90976\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dallas-city-hall-with-flags-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-90976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dallas City Hall<\/p>\n<p>Dallas City Council overturned a budget proposal that called for the defunding of more than 300 Flock cameras in the city. The council\u2019s decision comes only a few days after the Dallas Police Department (DPD) announced more than half of the cameras would be shut off in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the State of Texas\u2019 directive on grant funding used to support Flock Safety cameras, <a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/09\/01\/statement-on-flock-camera-grant-funding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DPD announced that 321 of 684 cameras are no longer eligible for that money.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DPD will cancel those cameras effective Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>During last night\u2019s Wednesday briefing meeting, Adam Bazaldua proposed a new amendment that would have stripped away $1.5 million in funding for DPD\u2019s Flock camera system. The amendment would essentially eliminate the program.<\/p>\n<p>However, the council strongly opposed, citing the Flock cameras help improve efficiency and solve crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Only Mayor Pro Tem Jaime Resendez, council member Paula Blackmon and Bazaldua voted to support the proposed amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788651636_488_8ddafd819415d55fa9c7d86e7ec264373e8df34784422adeec47a828c58c2d8f.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas City Hall Dallas City Council overturned a budget proposal that called for the defunding of more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[897,4519,102,104,103,4081,55516,19098,45688,148652,6616],"class_list":["post-427553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-adam-bazaldua","tag-city-council","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-dpd","tag-flock","tag-flock-cameras","tag-jaime-resendez","tag-paula-blackmon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427553","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=427553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}