They're Tracking Wylie

A $7.5 billion corporation is surveilling every move you make—without your consent, with catastrophic security failures, using your tax dollars.

Demand City Council End This

What's Happening in Wylie

Imagine the government tracking everywhere you go. Knowing when you leave for work, when you drop your kids at school, when you visit the doctor, when you go to church. Recording your conversations on the street. Building a permanent record of your life.

Sounds like something from a dystopian movie, right? It's happening right now in Wylie.

The company is Flock Safety—a $7.5 billion startup backed by Founders Fund, which also invested in Palantir (the intelligence contractor). They've installed AI-powered surveillance cameras throughout Wylie and across the US to do exactly what that scary intro described.

This isn't about politics. It's about your freedom and your family's safety.

Here's what most people don't know:

These aren't just traffic cameras. They're called ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers), and they scan every vehicle that passes by—logging your license plate, your car's make and model, the exact time and location, even bumper stickers. This data is uploaded to a massive database that builds a map of everywhere you go.

No warrant required. No public vote. You never consented to this.

Flock's marketing says "it's only for law enforcement," but that's misleading. They sell to Home Depot, Lowe's, shopping centers, and HOAs. Those businesses share your data with police—and potentially with ICE for immigration enforcement—with just a few clicks.

And it gets worse: Flock recently rolled out microphones that record conversations in public spaces, listening for "sounds of distress." Your private conversations on the sidewalk, at the park, outside restaurants—all potentially recorded and analyzed by AI.

Your Data Isn't Safe

All of your movement data—everywhere you've driven in the last 30+ days—is sitting in a database. And that database has catastrophic security problems.

Independent security researchers discovered:

60+

Flock cameras with ZERO password protection. Anyone in the world with a web browser could watch live feeds, see 30 days of footage, and track anyone's movements. Including cameras pointed at playgrounds with children.

What this means for you:

  • Stalkers can track you. Your ex, a creep at work, anyone—they could see when you leave home, where you go, when you're alone.
  • Thieves can case your house. They know when you're gone, what you drive, your daily routine.
  • Hackers have sold access on the dark web. Flock employee logins and police credentials have been found for sale on dark web markets.
  • Foreign governments can spy on Americans. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have already compromised systems that Flock relies on.
  • Abusive cops can misuse it. Officers have already used similar systems to illegally track ex-girlfriends and women seeking abortions.

Flock runs on discontinued Android software from 2021 with over 900 known security vulnerabilities. The cameras can be hacked by simply pressing buttons on the back. Data isn't encrypted. Some police departments don't even require passwords to access the system—less security than your Netflix account.

This isn't theoretical. Families have been held at gunpoint because of false alerts. Women have been illegally tracked across state lines. And your tax dollars are paying for it.

When the System Gets It Wrong, Innocent People Suffer

These aren't theoretical concerns. License plate readers like Flock's are already putting innocent people—including children—in terrifying, dangerous situations.

Documented incidents from CBS News investigations:

Aurora, Colorado - 2020

A mother and her 6-year-old daughter were pulled over at gunpoint and forced to lie on hot pavement. Police had guns drawn on a kindergartener because an ALPR system confused their Colorado car license plate with a stolen Montana motorcycle.

The city paid a $1.9 million settlement in 2024 for the trauma inflicted on this family.

Española, New Mexico

A 12-year-old was handcuffed when the ALPR system misread a license plate digit—confusing a "2" for a "7."

One month later in the same town, a 17-year-old honors student was detained at gunpoint based on another mistaken vehicle match.

Oakland, California - 2018

Brian Hofer was held at gunpoint after his vehicle was incorrectly flagged as stolen by an ALPR system. He wasn't a criminal—he was a privacy advocate who had testified against surveillance systems.

Why these errors happen:

  • OCR software misreads letters and numbers - A "2" becomes a "7", an "O" becomes a "0"
  • Camera glare and misalignment - Weather, dirt, angles all cause false reads
  • Database matching errors - Wrong vehicle types matched (car vs. motorcycle)
  • Administrative failures - Stolen vehicle reports not updated when cars are recovered

With billions of license plate scans happening daily across America, even a small error rate means thousands of innocent people pulled over at gunpoint, handcuffed, traumatized—because a computer made a mistake.

It's not just mistakes—it's abuse:

In Kansas, law enforcement officers used ALPR systems to stalk their former romantic partners. Two separate documented incidents of cops tracking ex-girlfriends using the same technology Wylie is deploying.

Your family could be next. When Wylie police get an alert—accurate or not—they respond with guns drawn. A misread license plate. A database error. A digit confused. That's all it takes to put your child on the pavement at gunpoint.

Sources: CBS News ALPR Investigation, AOL News Report

Government Overreach Without Accountability

Here's something most Wylie residents don't know: You never got to vote on this.

On August 13, 2024, Wylie City Council approved the Flock Safety contract in the "consent agenda"—a list of items passed together without individual discussion. The vote was 6-0. No debate. No community input. No discussion about whether Wylie residents want to be surveilled 24/7.

The consent agenda is typically reserved for routine, non-controversial items like approving meeting minutes. Mass surveillance of every resident was buried in paperwork and rubber-stamped.

The 4th Amendment requires a warrant for the government to track your location. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Carpenter v. United States that tracking someone's location violates their Fourth Amendment rights without a warrant. But Flock Safety sidesteps this by being a "private company"—even though it's paid by your tax dollars and used exclusively by government.

This is what the Supreme Court said about location tracking:

"Timestamp data provides an intimate window into a person's life, revealing not only his particular movements, but through them his familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations."

If police need a warrant to ping your cell phone once, why don't they need one to track everywhere you drive for 30 days straight?

The profit motive: Flock Safety isn't a public service—it's a $7.5 billion startup preparing to launch an IPO (stock market offering). Their main investor, Andreessen Horowitz, has a portfolio littered with privacy scandals:

  • Facebook during the Cambridge Analytica scandal ($8 billion privacy settlement)
  • Coinbase (exposed data of 69,000 customers)
  • Multiple companies shut down for breaking laws and cheating customers

They're not protecting Wylie. They're extracting wealth from taxpayers while building a surveillance empire to profit from tracking your every movement.

It gets worse: Flock's AI now decides if you're suspicious.

Flock recently added artificial intelligence that analyzes your driving patterns and automatically flags you to police if it thinks you're acting "suspiciously." Not because you committed a crime—because an algorithm decided your movements look weird.

What triggers the AI:

  • Drive across state lines? Flagged for potential "human trafficking" or "narcotics trafficking"
  • Frequently see the same car? Both of you flagged as "linked vehicles" - the government tracking your relationships
  • Visit multiple locations? Flagged for appearing in "suspicious patterns"

The ACLU warns this is "pre-crime" surveillance: "The government shouldn't watch its citizens all the time just in case they commit crimes." Flock won't reveal how the algorithm decides who's suspicious, what data it was trained on, or its error rates. You're guilty until the AI says otherwise.

Does it even work? Despite Flock's claims, independent researchers found their statistics are misleading or outright false. Cities that installed Flock cameras saw crime rates that matched national trends—not because of the cameras, but because crime was dropping everywhere. Some cities even saw vehicle theft increase after installation.

Source: ACLU Report on Flock AI Surveillance

What Wylie's Own Documents Show

This isn't theoretical. After a Wylie resident filed a Texas Public Information Act request, the city was ordered by the Texas Attorney General to release internal Flock records. What those documents reveal — combined with verbatim quotes from City Council work sessions — is far worse than the public has been told.

Every claim in this section is sourced from official documents: Wylie PD's own audit logs, Council meeting transcripts, Wylie PD Policy 906, the vendor's own Sole Source Letter, and the Texas AG's ruling against the City.

The Audit Log Says What the Police Won't

On February 10, 2026, Assistant Chief Walters told City Council that officers can't misuse the system, claiming Flock now requires officers to "select a crime plus a case number" and "can't just make up" a reason for searching.

One month of Wylie PD's own audit logs (January 7 – February 6, 2026) tells a different story. Justifications officers actually entered include:

  • "kuria kuria" — entered as the case number for a "Drugs/Narcotics" search
  • "follow up TEST" with case number literally "TEST" — used twice against a "Robbery" classification, in a live system tracking real Wylie residents
  • "???????", "NHB????", "WHB????", "???0050", "?37992?" — license-plate guessing strings, not real searches
  • "case is from 2021, looking for recent hits" — a five-year-old case triggering a nationwide camera search
  • Generic, untraceable reasons like "investigation", "suspect", "theft", with no further detail

Source: Wylie PD Audit Log, FOIA release PIR-2026-78, covering 1/7/2026 – 2/6/2026.

90,911

The number of cameras a single Wylie officer's "hit and run" search reached. One query, 6,119 networks, 90,911 devices nationwide. This was not an unusual entry — multiple Wylie searches in the audit log scanned tens of thousands of cameras across the country for routine local cases.

The Council was told this is a tool for "vehicles entering and exiting our city." The audit log shows it's being used to scan a national surveillance network on the basis of a single Wylie file number.

Wylie's "30-day retention" claim doesn't survive its own documents.

Walters told Council: "We are only able to go back and pull 30 days." But the same audit log shows Wylie searches with date ranges starting in October, September, August, and even July 2025 — all run during the January–February 2026 audit window.

Wylie PD's own Policy 906 (Section IV.E) makes the limit even thinner: it mandates that Wylie share its data with the Texas Department of Public Safety LPR Database, where the data "will be maintained according to TXDPS policy" — not Wylie's. Once your plate is captured in Wylie, the city no longer controls how long it's stored.

"There's no way we can restrict that."

When Mayor Pro Tem Mulliqi asked, on February 10, whether out-of-town officers searching Wylie's data have to enter a Wylie case number or notify Wylie PD first, Assistant Chief Walters answered on the public record:

"If it's not our case number that they're working on, they do not have to call our agency... There's no way we can restrict that. We either make a decision to share or we make a decision not to."

Wylie has chosen to share. That means thousands of officers in agencies Wylie has never vetted — in any state — can pull up the movements of every car that drives through Wylie, with zero local oversight, zero notification, and zero requirement to tie the search to a Wylie case.

Source: Wylie City Council Work Session transcript, February 10, 2026.

How They Paid for It Without You Noticing

The contract was buried in a consent agenda, and the $32,800 initial cost never appeared as a line item in the City budget you vote on. Chief Henderson confirmed the funding source himself: "We used SEEs funds to allow us to purchase these license plate readers."

"Seized funds" are restricted forfeiture proceeds — money taken from criminal cases that sits outside the General Fund. Using them for surveillance infrastructure bypasses the public budget process, the public hearings, and the public scrutiny that any normal six-figure procurement would face. Wylie residents had no opportunity to weigh in because the spending was never visible.

Sources: 05-28-2024 City Council Agenda Packet (Ordinance 2024-16); 08-13-2024 Police memo; February 10, 2026 work session transcript.

The City Tried to Hide the Contract. The Texas AG Ordered It Released.

When a Wylie resident filed a Texas Public Information Act request for the Flock contract, pricing, policies, audit logs, and data-sharing agreements, the City of Wylie did not simply respond. The City asked the Texas Attorney General for permission to withhold the records, claiming they were Flock's "trade secrets."

Three things came out of that fight:

  • The City didn't make its own legal case. The City's letter to the AG admitted it had not provided the required factual evidence — it just assumed Flock would.
  • Flock didn't bother defending the secrecy. The AG's ruling (OR2026-016393, April 23, 2026) stated plainly: "we have not received comments from Flock explaining why the submitted information should not be released." Flock let the deadline pass.
  • The City may have used a template from someone else's case. The City's submission to the AG referenced a "Park Request" instead of the actual requestor — suggesting copy-paste, not individualized legal review.

The AG ordered the City to release the records. Other Texas cities never tried to hide theirs in the first place — Houston ($6.39M Flock contract), Temple, and Fort Bend County have all published their Flock agreements openly. Fort Bend's contract even contains explicit language stating: "the terms and conditions of the Agreement are not proprietary or confidential information."

Wylie's instinct, when asked what it was doing with public money to surveil the public, was to fight to keep it hidden.

Sources: City of Wylie request to AG (Feb 12, 2026); Texas Attorney General Ruling OR2026-016393 (April 23, 2026); resident's counter-brief filed under § 552.304.

Quiet Plans to Expand the Network

Public attention has focused on the original three cameras. But on February 10, 2026, Chief Henderson asked Council for direction to install five more cameras at intersections most Wylie residents drive through every day:

  • Country Club Road & East Parker Road
  • East FM 544 & Vinson Road
  • West FM 544 & McCrary Road
  • South Highway 78 & Sanden Boulevard
  • North Highway 78 & Wylie East Drive

Council gave that direction. One council member's response on the record was: "if you want to put 510, 1,500, I don't have a problem with it. Y'all can put one on every street, corner and alley if you want to."

Source: February 10, 2026 City Council Work Session transcript.

Wylie Signed a Contract With an Unlicensed Vendor

The timeline matters:

  • July 10, 2024: Texas DPS issues a cease-and-desist letter to Flock for operating in Texas for five years without the private security license required by state law.
  • August 13, 2024: Wylie City Council approves the Flock contract on the consent agenda.
  • October 10, 2024: Flock finally obtains a valid Texas license — two months after Wylie signed.
  • August 2025: Flock's Texas license is suspended again. An ongoing DPS investigation remains open.

When this was raised at Council, Assistant Chief Walters dismissed the August 2025 suspension by saying it was just "for failure to provide a proof of liability insurance. It wasn't for any kind of a violation."

Why this matters beyond the legalities: evidence collected by an unlicensed private investigator can be challenged and excluded in court. Every case Wylie PD built using Flock during that unlicensed window is potentially compromised — including any cases that led to arrests of Wylie residents.

Sources: Texas DPS records; Houston Chronicle reporting; February 10, 2026 work session transcript.

What Wylie Actually Bought (in Flock's Own Words)

Council and Wylie PD have repeatedly described Flock as "just a license plate reader." The Sole Source Letter Flock provided to Wylie — signed by Flock CEO Garrett Langley — describes a very different product. These are the vendor's own admissions about Wylie's specific package:

  • Integrated Audio & Gunshot Detection — microphones using machine learning to "recognize audio signatures" of crimes in progress.
  • Tracking by appearance, not just plate — proprietary machine vision that identifies vehicles by "roof rack, bumper stickers, etc." and can capture vehicles "with the absence of a license plate."
  • "Visual Search" — upload any digital image of a vehicle from any source and the system finds matching vehicles.
  • Live video integration via Flock Safety Condor™, providing officers "instant replay of downloadable live on-scene video with PTZ controls and 25X optical zoom."
  • Integration with Axon's Evidence.com, mobile patrol-car ALPRs, and an "ever-increasing" network of HOA and private business cameras.

And documented in court filings: Flock Patent US 11,441,654 B1 describes classifying people by race, gender, height, and weight in searchable databases. This is the vendor's product roadmap, not speculation.

Source: Flock Safety Sole Source Letter, signed by CEO Garrett Langley, provided to City of Wylie 2024.

Flock's Documented Pattern of Acting Without Authorization

Wylie's leadership has placed extraordinary trust in Flock as a vendor. That trust isn't supported by Flock's record with other cities — facts that come from official government statements, not advocacy groups:

  • Mountain View, California: Flock unilaterally enabled a nationwide data-sharing setting without the police department's knowledge, exposing local data to federal agencies.
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts: Flock installed cameras after the City Council ordered them deactivated. The contract was terminated for breach of trust.
  • Washington State: Border Patrol accessed data from ten local departments that had never agreed to share with federal agencies.
  • February 2026: Flock unilaterally rewrote its standard customer contract with 147 changes — including deleting the clause that read "Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data."
  • Amazon's Ring ended its partnership with Flock just weeks before Wylie's February 2026 work session, citing concerns about how the data was being used.

A vendor that has reactivated cameras after a city ordered them off, enabled hidden data-sharing without notice, and quietly stripped its customer-data protections from its contracts is not a vendor any city should be expanding its surveillance footprint with.

Sources: Public statements from Mountain View PD, Cambridge MA City Council, Washington state agencies, and contract comparison filings cited in Wylie public testimony, February 24, 2026.

Watch the Investigation

Don't take our word for it. Independent security researcher and musician Benn Jordan investigated Flock Safety and found disturbing vulnerabilities. His findings led to:

  • Official investigations by U.S. Senators and Representatives
  • Cities canceling Flock contracts and removing cameras
  • Over 60 published security vulnerabilities
  • Major media coverage exposing the dangers

Watch this 35-minute investigation to see how easily Flock cameras can be hacked, how your data is being sold, and how false alerts have put families in danger:

How I Hacked Every Camera in Wylie (And Your City Too)

This investigation exposed 60+ Flock cameras with no passwords, dark web credential sales, and how the technology can be used for stalking.

Flock's audio surveillance: It's not just cameras. Flock recently rolled out high-powered microphones throughout cities that record your conversations. They call it "distress detection"—but according to civilian oversight commissions, over 99% of Flock alerts don't result in any police action, and the microphones capture everything you say in public.

Flock Safety Is Now Recording Your Conversations

High-powered microphones listening to your conversations, voice data revealing your health and emotions, and a chilling effect on free speech.

At what point does "safety" become oppression? When does protection become a prison?

Your Voice Matters

Wylie City Council has the power to terminate this contract today.

Cities across America are waking up to the dangers:

  • Evanston, Illinois canceled their Flock contract and demanded cameras be removed
  • Denver City Council voted unanimously against renewal (though the mayor bypassed them)
  • Oak Park, Illinois ended their Flock contract citing privacy violations
  • U.S. Senators and Representatives have launched federal investigations

But this only happens when residents speak up. When they demand accountability. When they refuse to trade freedom for empty promises of "safety."

This isn't about being anti-police. It's about being pro-Constitution. Law enforcement deserves better tools—tools that actually work, that don't violate civil rights, and that aren't controlled by profit-driven corporations with terrible security.

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Mayor: Matthew Porter
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Collin County shares Flock Safety data regionally. Your commissioner needs to hear that this surveillance system threatens residents' safety and privacy.

Make Your Voice Heard:

  • Be personal. Explain how constant surveillance makes YOU feel unsafe, not more protected.
  • Mention your family. "I don't want my children's movements tracked by a corporation."
  • Reference the evidence. 60+ cameras with no passwords, credentials on the dark web, 900+ security vulnerabilities.
  • Demand action. Ask for contract termination and a public hearing.
  • Personalize the template. Before sending, add your own story or concerns - even small changes make your email more powerful.
  • Copy friends and neighbors. Forward this site. The more voices, the stronger the message.

You're Not Alone

Wylie is just one of over 6,000 communities being surveilled by Flock Safety. But residents across America are fighting back—and winning.

📋 See Wylie's Surveillance Contracts: The Atlas of Surveillance has documented exactly what surveillance technology Wylie Police Department has deployed. View Wylie's full surveillance profile

Join the movement: DeFlock.me is a community-driven effort to map surveillance cameras and organize resistance. See where cameras are in your neighborhood, report new ones, and connect with others who refuse to accept constant surveillance.

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Why This Matters

This isn't about left or right. Republican or Democrat. It's about freedom versus control.

Maybe you trust today's government with this power. But what about tomorrow's? What about five years from now?

This surveillance system can be used to:

  • Track women seeking healthcare across state lines
  • Monitor people attending protests or political rallies
  • Build cases for immigration enforcement (already happening)
  • Stalk domestic violence victims
  • Create dossiers on journalists, activists, or anyone the government deems "suspicious"

The Supreme Court has ruled that tracking your location violates the Fourth Amendment. But Flock Safety exploits a loophole by being "private"—even though they're paid by government and used exclusively by law enforcement.

Privacy is power. It's control over your own life. Once you give it up, you don't get it back.

Your children will grow up in a world where every movement is logged. Where AI analyzes their emotions and conversations. Where corporations profit from tracking their lives.

Unless we stop it now.

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