One Houston-area city will now be using city money to pay for the controversial cameras that track license plates and citizen movements.<\/p>\n
The Conroe City Council met Thursday to discuss the new city budget for fiscal 2027 and heard speakers on both sides of the issue, including citizens who spoke against Flock cameras as an invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n
But they also heard from Police Chief Jon Buckholtz, who said the cameras are effective for law enforcement, they’ve been around for seven years and he’s never seen any misuse of them in tracking people.<\/p>\n
The council agreed to keep the cameras in the city budget and then passed a motion to adopt the new budget.<\/p>\n
The cameras have been the subject of a national controversy because they’re considered by some to be mass surveillance and an intrusion on US privacy rights, though law enforcement agencies often consider them helpful.<\/p>\n
There have also been cases in which the cameras were misused. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Houston-area city will now be using city money to pay for the controversial cameras that track license…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13009,38656,56,58,57,38655,21639,7094,5387,38657],"class_list":["post-435431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-abc-news","tag-glen-beck","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-news-talk","tag-houston-traffic","tag-houston-weather","tag-michael-berry","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435431","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=435431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}