Remove Flock cameras from Boerne and Kendall County
The Issue
Remove Flock Surveillance Cameras from Boerne and Kendall County
Kendall County Has Renewed a Surveillance Program Twice Without Ever Asking Us
On October 14, 2025, the Kendall County Commissioners Court approved a License Agreement with Flock Safety Group, Inc., a Georgia corporation, allowing automated license plate reader cameras in county right-of-way. The vote was 3–2.
On April 28, 2026, the Court voted 4–1 to apply for a second state grant to continue the program. The county’s own agenda request states the purpose plainly: to continue the lease and deployment of the Flock license plate readers. The grant period begins October 1, 2026.
In between those two votes, there was never a public hearing. Not one. No resident of this county has ever been given three minutes at a podium to say anything about it before a decision was made.
That is what this petition is about.
What the county bought. 56 cameras — 38 standard plate readers, 14 long-range readers, and 4 solar PTZ video cameras. Year one cost $258,305, covered by a state grant. The recurring cost is $198,550 every year, with a county match of $39,710 on the current grant application.
What it does. These cameras don’t photograph suspects. They photograph everyone. Every vehicle that passes, logged with time and location, held for 30 days, searchable. Flock operates a national network connecting thousands of agencies, and departments far outside Texas can query where a vehicle has been without a warrant and without notice. Communities across the country have discovered after the fact that their data was shared more broadly than their own officials understood.
What the paperwork says.
The camera locations were deliberately excluded from the signed agreement. Public roads, public money, undisclosed placement.
Kendall County isn’t permitted to move, adjust, or take possession of the cameras. We pay $198,550 a year and own none of the equipment.
The county granted Flock an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to use our data to improve their products — and that provision survives even if the agreement ends.
Residents have no standing whatsoever. The contract states that none of its provisions are enforceable by third parties. Disputes go to arbitration under Georgia law, and Flock’s total liability is capped at what the county paid the prior year.
The agreement auto-renews for 24 months unless written notice is given at least 30 days before the term ends.
There was no competitive bid. It was purchased off a cooperative purchasing contract.
This is not about distrusting our deputies. Plate readers do sometimes help recover stolen vehicles and locate missing people. Nobody signing this denies that. The question is what we agreed to in exchange, for how long, shared with whom, at what cost — and whether the people being watched ever get asked.
That principle isn’t complicated, and this county claims to hold it: government doesn’t build records on citizens who have done nothing wrong without asking them first.
What we are asking for.
Before the October 1 grant period begins, we ask the Kendall County Commissioners Court to hold a posted public hearing on the Flock program, with time for residents to speak.
We further ask that before the program continues:
1. Publish what these cameras have actually produced — arrests, clearances, and recoveries attributable to them since installation.
2. Disclose every agency, in Texas and outside it, that can search Kendall County data, and end all sharing beyond this county.
3. Shorten the 30-day retention period and publish quarterly audits of who searched the system and why.
4. Publish the camera validation date and the contract renewal deadline, so no two-year obligation attaches automatically without a public vote.
5. Commit that no future surveillance system is acquired or renewed without a posted public hearing first.
We are not asking any commissioner to reverse a vote. We are asking for the hearing that should have preceded both of them.
Commissioners Court meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m., 201 East San Antonio Avenue, Boerne. To speak, submit a Public Participation Form to the Judge’s Court Coordinator by 8:00 a.m. that morning.
Two grant cycles. Zero public hearings. Sign to ask for one.
Every figure above comes from Kendall County’s own agenda packets and Flock Safety’s published contract terms. Source documents available on request.
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The Issue
Remove Flock Surveillance Cameras from Boerne and Kendall County
Kendall County Has Renewed a Surveillance Program Twice Without Ever Asking Us
On October 14, 2025, the Kendall County Commissioners Court approved a License Agreement with Flock Safety Group, Inc., a Georgia corporation, allowing automated license plate reader cameras in county right-of-way. The vote was 3–2.
On April 28, 2026, the Court voted 4–1 to apply for a second state grant to continue the program. The county’s own agenda request states the purpose plainly: to continue the lease and deployment of the Flock license plate readers. The grant period begins October 1, 2026.
In between those two votes, there was never a public hearing. Not one. No resident of this county has ever been given three minutes at a podium to say anything about it before a decision was made.
That is what this petition is about.
What the county bought. 56 cameras — 38 standard plate readers, 14 long-range readers, and 4 solar PTZ video cameras. Year one cost $258,305, covered by a state grant. The recurring cost is $198,550 every year, with a county match of $39,710 on the current grant application.
What it does. These cameras don’t photograph suspects. They photograph everyone. Every vehicle that passes, logged with time and location, held for 30 days, searchable. Flock operates a national network connecting thousands of agencies, and departments far outside Texas can query where a vehicle has been without a warrant and without notice. Communities across the country have discovered after the fact that their data was shared more broadly than their own officials understood.
What the paperwork says.
The camera locations were deliberately excluded from the signed agreement. Public roads, public money, undisclosed placement.
Kendall County isn’t permitted to move, adjust, or take possession of the cameras. We pay $198,550 a year and own none of the equipment.
The county granted Flock an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to use our data to improve their products — and that provision survives even if the agreement ends.
Residents have no standing whatsoever. The contract states that none of its provisions are enforceable by third parties. Disputes go to arbitration under Georgia law, and Flock’s total liability is capped at what the county paid the prior year.
The agreement auto-renews for 24 months unless written notice is given at least 30 days before the term ends.
There was no competitive bid. It was purchased off a cooperative purchasing contract.
This is not about distrusting our deputies. Plate readers do sometimes help recover stolen vehicles and locate missing people. Nobody signing this denies that. The question is what we agreed to in exchange, for how long, shared with whom, at what cost — and whether the people being watched ever get asked.
That principle isn’t complicated, and this county claims to hold it: government doesn’t build records on citizens who have done nothing wrong without asking them first.
What we are asking for.
Before the October 1 grant period begins, we ask the Kendall County Commissioners Court to hold a posted public hearing on the Flock program, with time for residents to speak.
We further ask that before the program continues:
1. Publish what these cameras have actually produced — arrests, clearances, and recoveries attributable to them since installation.
2. Disclose every agency, in Texas and outside it, that can search Kendall County data, and end all sharing beyond this county.
3. Shorten the 30-day retention period and publish quarterly audits of who searched the system and why.
4. Publish the camera validation date and the contract renewal deadline, so no two-year obligation attaches automatically without a public vote.
5. Commit that no future surveillance system is acquired or renewed without a posted public hearing first.
We are not asking any commissioner to reverse a vote. We are asking for the hearing that should have preceded both of them.
Commissioners Court meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m., 201 East San Antonio Avenue, Boerne. To speak, submit a Public Participation Form to the Judge’s Court Coordinator by 8:00 a.m. that morning.
Two grant cycles. Zero public hearings. Sign to ask for one.
Every figure above comes from Kendall County’s own agenda packets and Flock Safety’s published contract terms. Source documents available on request.
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Petition created on July 28, 2026