Documented Incident
Pearland police report city's Flock database was searched more than 903,000 times in one month
Event: September 10, 2026 · First reported: October 16, 2026 · 2 sources
Pearland, Texas police released data to city council members showing the city's Flock Safety database was searched more than 903,000 times between August 10 and September 10. The disclosure follows questions from council members about how the license plate reader system is used and who can access it. A similar finding in Lucas County, Ohio earlier in 2026 — roughly 904,000 searches in a single month — was attributed by the Harris County Sheriff's Office to Flock's nationwide search feature, which lets participating agencies query the databases of other opted-in agencies.
Search-volume audits are one of the few tools local officials have to see how widely their community's ALPR data travels, and Pearland's numbers are surfacing as neighboring Texas cities take divergent paths on whether to keep the cameras at all.
Key facts
- Pearland police reported more than 903,000 searches of the city's Flock database between August 10 and September 10.
- In the comparable Lucas County, Ohio case, Texas agencies accounted for 16% of searches and Houston-area agencies about 9%, per reporting; Harris County Sheriff's Office pointed to Flock's nationwide search option as the likely cause.
- Pearland police say that since adopting Flock cameras in 2022, the technology has been involved in 57% of the city's stolen vehicle recoveries.
- Manvel City Council voted unanimously last month to decommission its Flock cameras.
- League City put continued Flock use to voters in November and passed a resolution committing to decommission the cameras within 72 hours of a 'no' vote; Conroe and Liberty recently voted to renew or continue their contracts.
Sources
This summary was written from the published reporting below and links to it; BlockFlockNow does not reproduce article text.
- Pearland's Flock database searched 900,000 times in 1 month, police say (Headtopics, October 16, 2026)
- Pearland's Flock database searched 900,000 times in 1 month, police say (Abc 13, October 16, 2026)
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Updated October 17, 2026. Corrections: blockflock@bytebunny.io. See all documented incidents or search the full article archive.