League City to remove automated licence plate reader cameras

Proposition A asked voters whether law enforcement should continue to use the city’s 55 Flock cameras, according to previous reporting by Community Impact.

Unofficial results show a little fewer than 54% of ballots cast in the referendum favored removing the cameras, according to the Galveston County elections site.

How we got here

In August, City Council voted to put the question of whether the city uses Flock cameras on the Nov. 3 ballot, in a non-binding special election, meaning, at the time, the city still retained the authority to determine policy, regardless of the outcome. 

Later in October, City Council voted to make the outcome of the vote binding.

What’s next?

The resolution calls for removal of the cameras within 72 hours of the official canvassing of the election results at the city’s Nov. 17 meeting.

For the time being, Mayor Nick Long has asked city staff to immediately bag any of the city’s Flock cameras at fixed locations along public roadways, Sarah Osbourne, director of communications and community engagement for League City, said in a release.