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Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot

Surveillance and policingConroe City CouncilMontgomeryPublic meeting

Conroe City Council voted late on August 13th, 2026 on whether to place a binding proposition about the city's Flock Safety license plate reader cameras before voters in November. Reporting says the motion did not get the three yes votes it needed. Council Member David Hairel and Council Member Shana Arthur were the only members who supported it. The city faced an August 17th deadline to place items on the November ballot, so the question will not reach Conroe voters this fall. The same council had already voted unanimously on July 23rd, 2026 to table two Flock related proposals indefinitely, a step that did not terminate or change the city's Flock agreement. The neighboring city of League City took the opposite path two days earlier and ordered the election.

How to take part

Conroe City Council meets at City Hall, 300 W. Davis St, Conroe, TX 77301. A resident who wants to speak completes a Citizen Inquiry Form available outside the Council Chambers. It goes to the Police Officer before the meeting begins. Speakers are limited to 3 minutes each and preference goes to those addressing agenda items.

Where to do it

Where

1 county. In Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands.

Timeline

  1. ordered

    Council voted unanimously to table two Flock camera proposals indefinitely

  2. ordered

    Motion to place a Flock proposition on the November ballot failed for lack of a third vote

  3. statutory deadline

    Reported deadline to place items on the November ballot

  4. 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.

  1. 2026-08-19

    Whether the council has taken the question up again is unconfirmed. The city's agendas page publishes no meeting dates or item text for August.

  2. 2026-08-22

    Whether the council has taken the question up again is still unconfirmed. The vote falling short of putting the Flock camera contract on the November ballot still stands and the city publishes no later item text.

  3. 2026-08-25

    Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.

  4. 2026-08-28

    Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.

  5. 2026-09-01

    Conroe's effort to send the Flock contract to voters remains short of the required council support.

  6. 2026-09-02

    Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.

  7. 2026-09-05

    The Conroe camera contract is still off the November ballot for want of the votes. Nothing has been reconsidered.

  8. 2026-09-08

    Conroe's Flock camera contract still stands without a public vote on it. The council never found the votes to put it on the ballot.

  9. 2026-09-09

    The Conroe Flock camera question is still off the ballot, because the council never found the votes to put it on, and nothing has been refiled.

  10. 2026-09-12

    Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.

  11. 2026-09-13

    Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.

  12. 2026-09-16

    The Conroe camera contract is still not going to the voters. The motion to put it on the ballot fell short and no member has moved to revive it.

  13. 2026-09-19

    The camera contract is still not on any ballot, so the question stays with the council rather than the voters.

  14. 2026-09-23

    Conroe's camera contract is still not on a ballot, and the council has not revisited the vote.

  15. 2026-09-26

    Conroe's Flock contract is still off the November ballot, and the council has not taken the question up again.

  16. 2026-09-29

    Conroe's Flock contract stays off the November ballot. The council has not brought the question back.

The evidence

Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.

the motion did not get the three "yes" votes needed to advance
KPRC Click2Houston, Conroe City Council vote falls short of putting Flock camera question on November ballot Journalism · click2houston.com
Hairel and Council Member Shana Arthur were the only members who supported placing it on the ballot.
KPRC Click2Houston, Conroe City Council vote falls short of putting Flock camera question on November ballot Journalism · click2houston.com
Two proposals tied to Conroe's use of Flock Safety cameras were tabled indefinitely after City Council members voted unanimously to set both items aside.
ABC13 Houston, Conroe City Council indefinitely tables 2 Flock camera proposals Journalism · abc13.com
The votes do not terminate, suspend or change the city's Flock agreement.
ABC13 Houston, Conroe City Council indefinitely tables 2 Flock camera proposals Journalism · abc13.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?

Conroe City Council voted late on August 13th, 2026 on whether to place a binding proposition about the city's Flock Safety license plate reader cameras before voters in November. Reporting says the motion did not get the three yes votes it needed. Council Member David Hairel and Council Member Shana Arthur were the only members who supported it. The city faced an August 17th deadline to place items on the November ballot, so the question will not reach Conroe voters this fall. The same council had already voted unanimously on July 23rd, 2026 to table two Flock related proposals indefinitely, a step that did not terminate or change the city's Flock agreement. The neighboring city of League City took the opposite path two days earlier and ordered the election.

Who decides it?

Conroe City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.

Can the public take part?

Conroe City Council meets at City Hall, 300 W. Davis St, Conroe, TX 77301. A resident who wants to speak completes a Citizen Inquiry Form available outside the Council Chambers. It goes to the Police Officer before the meeting begins. Speakers are limited to 3 minutes each and preference goes to those addressing agenda items.

Where in Texas does it apply?

It covers Montgomery County in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 statutory deadline on August 17th.

When did it start?

The earliest date on its record is July 23rd, 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?

No. It sits outside the ERCOT interconnection.

When was it last checked?

Every fact on it was last verified against its source on September 29th, 2026.

Cite this

Texas AI Docket, Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot. Tracked since July 23rd, 2026. Last verified September 29th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0055/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0055.

Beat

Filed under Surveillance and policing, with every other decision on that beat.

Last checked 2026-09-29