Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract
Guadalupe County Sheriff Joshua Ray asked the Commissioners Court for permission to terminate the county's contract with Flock Safety, and the court approved unanimously. Flock cameras read license plates automatically and alert deputies to vehicles of interest. Ray told the court his view of the technology has not changed and that the reason is cost. The county pays to replace cameras that keep getting vandalized while continuing to pay the monthly bill. Guadalupe County sits in the San Antonio metro area between Seguin and New Braunfels.
How to take part
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court meets in Seguin and publishes agendas and minutes on the county website. The county page states that members of the public may participate and address the governmental body during any telephonic meeting, and it publishes the Zoom connection details alongside the agendas.
Where
1 county. In San Antonio-New Braunfels.
Timeline
- ordered
Commissioners Court approved the sheriff's request to terminate the Flock Safety contract, as reported by the Seguin Gazette
- Today
How this decision moved
One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.
- 2026-08-19
Whether the court has revisited the agreement is unconfirmed. The county publishes no meeting dates or item text on its agendas page and carries nothing dated July or August.
- 2026-08-22
Whether the court has revisited the agreement is still unconfirmed. The sheriff's decision to end the county's Flock Safety contract still stands as reported and no later county action appears.
- 2026-08-26
Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.
- 2026-08-29
The court's decision to end the contract is still corroborated by the San Antonio station's account, which still carries the vandalism of every Flock camera in Seguin. The sheriff's stated reasoning for ending it, which the record takes from the Seguin paper, is unconfirmed this run because that account is no longer readable without a subscription.
- 2026-09-02
The termination of the county's camera contract stands and the commissioners court has recorded no move to restore it.
- 2026-09-05
The county's end of its plate reader contract still stands on the San Antonio station's account. The newspaper carrying the sheriff's own words now sits behind a subscription wall, so what he said about the cost is unconfirmed.
- 2026-09-07
The San Antonio station's account still carries the sheriff's own words on why the contract ended. The cost of replacing vandalized cameras is still the reason he gives rather than the technology itself. The Seguin newspaper's account can no longer be read, because that publisher's crawl rules now exclude automated readers, so three quotes drawn from it are unconfirmed today. Three the station carries in its own words now stand beside them and they do not differ.
- 2026-09-10
The San Antonio station's account still carries the sheriff's stated reason, which is the cost of replacing vandalized cameras rather than a change of view about the technology. It still records that every Flock camera in Seguin was vandalized and that the county is refusing to pay to replace them. The Seguin newspaper's account still can't be read by an automated reader, so the quotes drawn from it stay unconfirmed, and nothing the station carries differs from them.
- 2026-09-13
Guadalupe County's end of the Flock contract still stands. The sheriff's stated reason is still the vandalism of the cameras rather than a change of view about what they do.
- 2026-09-16
The county's Flock contract is still terminated and the sheriff's office has not sought a replacement. The termination is still the last action on the record.
- 2026-09-19
The county is still out of the license plate reader contract the court voted to end.
- 2026-09-24
The county remains out of the plate reader contract its court voted to end.
- 2026-09-27
The county is still out of the plate reader contract its court voted to end.
- 2026-09-30
That the county is out of the plate reader contract is unconfirmed this time. Both published accounts of the vote sit on sites that bar automated readers, and no county record of the vote was found to read instead.
- 2026-10-01
That the county is out of the plate reader contract is still unconfirmed. Both published accounts of the vote sit on sites that bar automated readers, and no county record of the vote has been posted to read instead.
The evidence
Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.
My opinion of the technology hasn't changed. What changed is the cost.Sheriff ends county's Flock Safety contract, Seguin Gazette Journalism · seguingazette.com
Under our current agreement, replacing damaged cameras falls on the county, and I refuse to spend your tax dollars replacing equipment that is likely to keep getting torn down, paying again when they come down, and paying the monthly bill in between the whole time.Sheriff ends county's Flock Safety contract, Seguin Gazette Journalism · seguingazette.com
I'm not spending $45,000 of your money on equipment that won't be standing next year.Sheriff ends county's Flock Safety contract, Seguin Gazette Journalism · seguingazette.com
Every Flock camera in Seguin was vandalizedGuadalupe County approves terminating Flock camera contract, citing vandalism, 'public scrutiny', KSAT Journalism · ksat.com
I refuse to spend your tax dollars replacing equipment that is likely to keep getting torn downKSAT, Guadalupe County terminates contract with Flock Safety, citing public scrutiny Journalism · ksat.com
There’s so much public scrutiny over itKSAT, Guadalupe County terminates contract with Flock Safety, citing public scrutiny Journalism · ksat.com
is refusing to pay the cost to replace those camerasKSAT, Guadalupe County terminates contract with Flock Safety, citing public scrutiny Journalism · ksat.com
Questions about this decision
Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.
What is this decision?
Guadalupe County Sheriff Joshua Ray asked the Commissioners Court for permission to terminate the county's contract with Flock Safety, and the court approved unanimously. Flock cameras read license plates automatically and alert deputies to vehicles of interest. Ray told the court his view of the technology has not changed and that the reason is cost. The county pays to replace cameras that keep getting vandalized while continuing to pay the monthly bill. Guadalupe County sits in the San Antonio metro area between Seguin and New Braunfels.
Who decides it?
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Can the public take part?
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court meets in Seguin and publishes agendas and minutes on the county website. The county page states that members of the public may participate and address the governmental body during any telephonic meeting, and it publishes the Zoom connection details alongside the agendas.
Where in Texas does it apply?
It covers Guadalupe County in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX area.
Has it been decided?
It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.
What happens next?
No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was ordered on August 4th.
When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 4th, 2026.
What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
What sources back it?
Two sources back it.
Is it on the ERCOT grid?
Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.
When was it last checked?
Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 27th, 2026.
Cite this
Texas AI Docket, Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract. Tracked since August 4th, 2026. Last verified September 27th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0036/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0036.
Beat
Filed under Surveillance and policing, with every other decision on that beat.