1,000 signatures from registered Conroe voters puts a binding public referendum on the City's Flock license-plate camera program on the ballot. We're aiming for the May 2027 election.
On August 13, 2026, Conroe City Council voted to block a resident-led referendum on the Flock program from reaching the ballot, denying voters a direct say on a surveillance program they were never told about when it started.
The program has been running since 2021, starting with a 19-camera pilot. Council approved the current five-year contract in September 2024. The actual invoiced terms: 51 cameras, $127,500 a year, $637,500 total, running through 2029, all without a single resident vote of any kind.
A citizen advisory committee to study the program was proposed and then tabled indefinitely at the same July 23, 2026 meeting it was introduced. No oversight committee was ever formed. The contract continued uninterrupted.
If council won't let residents vote on it, residents can force the question onto the ballot themselves. That's what this petition does.
Want to understand how Flock's camera network works more broadly, beyond Conroe? deflock.org is an independent resource worth a look. We're not affiliated with it, but it's a good reference.
Every expansion was approved by council. None was put to a resident vote. Sourced to the city's own council packets, budgets, and contemporaneous reporting.
Conroe PD tests Flock; council moves toward initial deployment. Contemporaneous reporting cited about $98,000 for the 19-camera system.
Council approves a two-year Flock contract covering installation and maintenance at 22 locations.
10 more cameras added via a $20,000 grant, $5,000 city match, and $3,500 installation.
City financial records show a $66,000 line item for 44 Falcon cameras, plus a separate $28,500 Flock LPR line.
Council approves the contract still running today: $127,500 a year, $637,500 over five years, through 2029. Still no resident vote.
DeFlock, a crowdsourced volunteer project, has documented 111 automated license plate readers in and around Conroe, 91% of them Flock Safety units. Each dot is a camera someone actually located and logged.
Map and data: DeFlock.org. We are not affiliated with it. See the full map, live →