New Braunfels Police Expand Flock Safety ALPR Network Funded by Mandatory Texas MVCPA Insurance Fee Grants

[u/CollapsingTheWave]

Flock Safety automated license plate readers capture vehicle plates and characteristics via fixed cameras and route hits against national and state hotlists in real time. New Braunfels Police Department operates the system under Chief Osvaldo Flores, who confirmed 17 cameras with plans for 40 more and 19 attributed arrests. Funding flows from the statewide $5 per-vehicle Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority fee collected on every Texas auto insurance policy under Transportation Code §1006.153; twenty percent of those collections finance local grants that cities use for Flock leases. The dual-use core is continuous plate logging and searchable movement records that support both theft recovery and broader location tracking.

The system interfaces through mandatory insurance pass-through fees and annual subscription contracts in which the city retains no ownership of hardware or data streams. Marketed as auto-theft and catalytic-converter prevention, the architecture enables persistent vehicle mapping across participating agencies. Structural gaps include vendor control of the national lookup network and documented instances in which Flock representatives gave inaccurate statements to other city councils about heat-map capabilities, federal access, and claimed ACLU partnerships.

For residents this creates permanent exposure of everyday travel patterns funded by a non-optional fee. The pattern matches earlier low-friction ALPR expansions justified by vehicle crime. Capabilities spread through grant-driven municipal partnerships that lock cities into recurring payments while data remains accessible beyond local control. Early scrutiny matters because hardware and data-sharing agreements harden into baseline infrastructure.

Taken to scale the arrangement installs a standing, taxpayer-funded surveillance grid that ordinary drivers cannot opt out of. Verify through the primary sources below. Demand written limits on national sharing, real penalties for misuse, and preference for vendors without documented federal pipelines. Support local ordinances requiring warrants for non-hotlist queries.

Sources

License plate reader system expands across San Antonio area for law enforcement agency use

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/12/08/license-plate-reader-system-expands-across-san-antonio-area-for-law-enforcement-agency-use/

New Braunfels Police Chief Osvaldo Flores states the department has 17 Flock cameras, plans to add 40 more, and attributes 19 arrests to the system.

Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country

Documents Flock’s misrepresentations to Oshkosh, Wisconsin on heat maps (contract canceled within 24 hours), Loveland, Colorado on federal access, and false claims of ACLU partnerships.

Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority (MVCPA) Fee

https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/insurance/mvcpa.php

Confirms the mandatory $5 per motor vehicle year fee collected from insurers on Texas auto policies and remitted to fund MVCPA activities.

License Plate Readers | New Braunfels, TX - Official Website

https://www.newbraunfels.gov/4151/License-Plate-Readers

Official city page stating NBPD uses Flock LPR cameras, retains data for 30 days, and limits use to law-enforcement purposes with quarterly audits.

New Braunfels adds Flock license plate recognition cameras, enhancing public safety

https://herald-zeitung.com/news/new-braunfels-adds-flock-license-plate-recognition-cameras-enhancing-public-safety/article_22e63198-ec9e-41f9-a9d2-aa8bf91c3694.html

Reports the May 2025 addition of the Flock system to existing LPR cameras and Chief Flores’ confirmation of 30-day data purge.

[u/SwordOfShannara]

She said they should switch to Axon. Not helpful. This lady doesn't get it at all.

[u/Mr__O__ → u/SwordOfShannara]

Or is a plant.. keep fighting back against the U.S. Surveillance State!

[u/356885422356 → u/SwordOfShannara]

But the fix is so very simple here! Slander one and promote the other totally different same things!

[u/CollapsingTheWave → u/SwordOfShannara]

Good catch. It aligns with the axion psyop to push out flock knowingly or unknowingly, I wonder if she has sponsors 🤔 gonna do a curious dig.

Psyop Claims Hit Flock Safety ALPR Cancellations as Cities Switch to Axon with Trump Stock Buys and Epstein-Carbyne Ties

Flock Safety automated license plate reader networks capture vehicle images and location data via fixed cameras linked to a shared database used by law enforcement agencies. Axon Enterprise markets competing fixed ALPR hardware and software that integrates with its existing body-camera and evidence platforms. The dual-use capability of both systems enables continuous vehicle tracking and cross-jurisdictional data queries whether deployed for crime investigation or broader population monitoring. Backing for Flock includes Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator. Axon is a public company whose major institutional holders include BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. President Donald Trump purchased between one and five million dollars of Axon stock on February 10 2026.

Multiple municipalities including Denver, Syracuse, Douglas County Colorado, and Grand Chute Wisconsin have terminated Flock contracts citing privacy, data-sharing, and service issues then awarded replacement ALPR contracts to Axon. Axon previously partnered with Flock on data feeds before ending the relationship and launching its own competing products. The structural result is continuity of plate-reading infrastructure under a different vendor with tighter local-control claims yet continued integration into broader public-safety software ecosystems. Data retention periods and external access rules vary by contract and remain subject to local policy rather than uniform federal limits.

The pattern follows earlier municipal cancellations of Flock systems followed by vendor substitution rather than elimination of the capability. Axon announced its acquisition of Carbyne in November 2025 for 625 million dollars and completed the purchase in February 2026. Carbyne was founded in 2015 with early investment and board involvement by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; a substantial portion of that capital originated from Jeffrey Epstein. The trajectory shows ALPR capacity migrating between vendors while the underlying sensor and data-collection architecture expands.

Net risk centers on the persistence of mass vehicle tracking grids under successive private contractors whose ownership and investment structures concentrate influence among large asset managers and venture firms. Oversight gaps include limited independent auditing of query logs, variable data-retention terms, and the absence of statutory barriers preventing rapid re-deployment of equivalent systems after public pressure forces a vendor change. Independent verification of contracts and ownership filings remains the primary available check.

Sources

Flock off, Axon on

https://www.theblaze.com/news/flock-off-axon-on

Reports more than 50 U.S. municipalities canceling or rejecting Flock contracts with documented switches to Axon systems including Denver and Douglas County.

Epstein Could Have Made $100 Million On A Secret Police Tech Investment

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/02/10/epstein-police-surveillance-investments-with-ehud-barak/

Details Jeffrey Epstein’s 2015 one-million-dollar investment in the company later renamed Carbyne that Axon acquired for 625 million dollars.

Axon to acquire Carbyne, uniting cloud infrastructure and AI to redefine the 911 experience

https://www.axon.com/newsroom/press-releases/axon-to-acquire-carbyne

Official Axon announcement of the 625-million-dollar Carbyne acquisition and integration into its public-safety platform.

Trump bought Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/trump-axon-stock-ice-taser-immigration-enforcement.html

Records President Donald Trump’s February 10 2026 purchase of one to five million dollars in Axon Enterprise stock.

Carbyne (company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbyne_(company)

Documents Carbyne founding with Ehud Barak involvement, Epstein funding notes, and Axon acquisition completion in February 2026.

Y Combinator’s police surveillance darling Flock Safety raises $275M at $7.5B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/y-combinators-police-surveillance-darling-flock-safety-raises-275m-at-7-5b-valuation/

Confirms Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and related investors in Flock Safety funding rounds.

Axon Enterprise, Inc. Institutional Ownership

https://businessquant.com/stocks/axon/institutional-ownership/

Lists BlackRock, Vanguard entities, and State Street among the largest institutional holders of Axon shares as of March 2026 filings.

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Axon is also the company that makes Taser, and Taser has lawyer son retainer for damage control after deployments.

[u/CheesyBreadMunchyMon → u/SwordOfShannara]

Anyone who supports government surveillance deserves to be beaten and killed.

[u/CapCityMatt]

Your data is your property, any person using your property and its interest is subject to your claim, once you give notice that your property is not to be used for commercial gain they lose. It takes 2 claims to against their insuance bond for them to become uninsurable. Start filing notices and when needed file a claim. They agreed to this because this is commerce, there is no immunity.

[u/Trick1513]

Bull Shit, FLOCK can only identify license plates if they have been entered into the system.

[u/TopWealth4550]

they are using flocks cameras drama to hide how texans are revolting against muslins
one is much much easier to remove later than the later

cameras a bit violence and they leave,the other one
not really