The automated license plate readers aren’t popular with the public. Politicians are catching on.
Republicans and Democrats once praised Flock Safety as a protection tool for American communities. Now politicians across the political spectrum are turning against the mass-surveillance technology.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® froze state spending this week on the shoebox-size cameras that have proliferated across the nation.
The flow of taxpayer money halted just before the Texas Tribune published an investigation probing how one state agency poured at least $30 million into expanding the reach of the controversial automated license plate scanners.
“There is a crackdown across Texas,” Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris said in a statement.
Rare backpedal you mean. If he wins in November this is all going back to BAU.