Surveillance and policing

• Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology

  Surveillance and policingAustin City CouncilTravisPublic meeting

• Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract

  Surveillance and policingGuadalupe County Commissioners CourtGuadalupePublic meeting

• League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras

  Surveillance and policingLeague City City CouncilGalveston, HarrisPublic meeting

• Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide

  Surveillance and policingHarris County Commissioners CourtHarrisPublic meeting

• 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

• Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence

  Surveillance and policingPflugerville City CouncilTravis, WilliamsonBallot measure

• Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras

  Surveillance and policingOffice of the Texas GovernorStatewidePublic meeting

• Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program

  Surveillance and policingDallas City Council Public Safety CommitteeDallasPublic meeting

• Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge

  Surveillance and policingU.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology DirectorateHidalgoWrite to the decider

• Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence

  Surveillance and policingAustin City CouncilTravisPublic meeting

• El Paso City Council orders Flock plate reader cameras off city property and bars new contracts without a further vote

  Surveillance and policingEl Paso City CouncilEl PasoWrite to the decider

• Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court

  Surveillance and policingHays County Commissioners CourtHaysWrite to the decider

• Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance

  Surveillance and policingHays County Commissioners CourtHaysWrite to the decider

• El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts

  Surveillance and policingEl Paso City CouncilEl PasoPublic meeting

• Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks

  Surveillance and policingCity of DallasDallasPublic meeting

• Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data

  Surveillance and policingCity of LeanderWilliamsonWrite to the decider

• College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads

  Surveillance and policingCollege Station City CouncilBrazosWrite to the decider

• Comptroller bars state grant money from buying or renewing Flock cameras and other license plate readers

  Surveillance and policingTexas Comptroller of Public AccountsStatewideWrite to the decider

• Pflugerville's City Council adopts SAFE standards for how the city uses technology, with facial recognition covered

  Surveillance and policingPflugerville City CouncilTravis, WilliamsonWrite to the decider

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