How a $1 Texas Insurance Fee Built a Flock Camera Network

Texas lawmakers unanimously voted to fund a statewide surveillance network, and most of them had no idea that's what they were doing. Anthony Holm breaks it down.In 2023, every legislator present voted to raise your motor vehicle insurance fee by $1 a year. The sell was simple: fight catalytic converter theft. Three years later, at least $30 million of that money built a network of 3,200 Flock license plate cameras that can track your movement across Texas jurisdictions. No warrant. No retention rules. No real accountability.Gov. Abbott paused state funding on August 28. The cameras are still up.Anthony follows the money, names what went wrong, and explains why a unanimous vote that sounded like common sense turned into something Texans should be demanding answers about.