Dallas City Council rejects proposal to end Flock camera funding

Despite public pushback on the controversial security cameras, the City of Dallas did not approve a proposal that would have ended funding for 300 Flock cameras in the city.Dallas Flock camera proposal failsDallas City Council did not pass a proposal to cancel a $1.5 million security surveillance program with Flock cameras.Only three city council members voted in favor of canceling the contract. Dallas City Councilman Adam Bazaldua, who has been a vocal critic of the cameras, was one of them.300 cameras in Dallas would have been turned off if the proposal had passed.Councilman Bazaldua said he's not opposed to the technology, but raised concerns about a "lack of control" when discussing Flock cameras at Wednesday's Dallas City Council meeting."Flock's own chief legal officer has publicly admitted that officers tracking exes is the single most common form of abuse of their platform," Bazaldua said. "This isn't because I want to prevent DPD from doing anything. This is because it's been