Every car that drives through Wylie is being photographed, logged, and stored in a national database. Your license plate, your car's make and model, the time and location, even your bumper stickers. Not suspects. Everyone. No warrant, and no vote.

 Most Wylie residents never knew it happened. The Flock Safety contract was approved on August 13, 2024 in the City Council's consent agenda, the batch of routine paperwork passed in one motion with no discussion. It was paid for with seized-asset funds that never appear in the public budget, through a no-bid "sole source" purchase.

 RIGHT NOW there is a rare, free way out. Wylie's current contract runs through October 13, 2026 and renews AUTOMATICALLY for two more years unless the City sends Flock a written notice of non-renewal at least 30 days before it ends. That makes September 13, 2026 the deadline. Before that date, ending this costs taxpayers nothing. No termination fight, no exit fees, one letter. Miss it, and Wylie is locked in until October 2028. When Guadalupe County left mid-contract this August, Flock demanded roughly $85,000 in exit fees it had originally promised to waive.

 This is not an anti-police petition. We are not even against license plate cameras in principle. If the City believes cameras are worth having, it should make that case in public, take competitive bids, and require a warrant for searches. That is the same standard the Supreme Court already applies to tracking your phone, it is what our own congressman Rep. Keith Self's PRIVACY Act would require, and his bill is backed by the Texas Municipal Police Association. When Texas police officers' own association says this data needs warrant protections, asking for them is not radical.

 What the record actually shows:

 - The ACLU reviewed scan data from nearly 300 police departments: between 0.01% and 0.08% of scans ever matched anything. Everyone else was just logged.
 - LAPD's own Inspector General audit found 1 in 3 Flock alerts were false. LAPD, the second largest police department in America, dropped Flock days later.
 - This year Flock leaked real police search records onto public search engines, and unredacted logs exposed over 2.3 million plates nationwide.
 - This summer alone, officers in Pasadena and Baytown, Texas resigned amid investigations into using Flock to track women, and national reporting has documented more than 50 officers accused of the same.
 - Thousands of officers in outside agencies can search Wylie's data with no warrant, no Wylie case number, and no notification to Wylie PD. Our own assistant chief confirmed on the record: "There's no way we can restrict that."

 Texas communities are already acting. Hays County and Guadalupe County terminated their contracts. Austin, San Marcos, and Bandera all dropped Flock. Roughly 98 jurisdictions nationwide have ended, rejected, or declined these contracts.

 We, the undersigned residents of Wylie, ask the City Council to:

 1. Send Flock Safety a written notice of non-renewal before September 13, 2026
 2. Hold a public hearing before adopting any future surveillance technology
 3. Require competitive bidding, a public vote, and a warrant requirement for any camera program the City considers in the future

 Wylie deserves a say. We never got one on the way in. Give us one before the contract locks us in for two more years.

 Learn more and see every source document at deflock-wylie.com