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Houston Suburb to Vote on Removing 55 Flock Surveillance Cameras

October 30, 2026 at 13:32 EDT

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Security

A Houston-area suburb will vote Tuesday on whether to remove all 55 of its Flock surveillance cameras, and prediction-market traders currently put a 70% probability on voters approving the Flock cameras.

Vote Tuesday · Houston-area suburb

Will a Houston suburb keep its 55 Flock cameras?

Voters decide Tuesday whether to remove the town's entire Flock surveillance camera network. Prediction-market traders currently put a 70% probability on voters approving the cameras.

Flock cameras in the full network up for a vote

70%

Prediction-market probability that voters approve the cameras

30%

Remaining implied chance of any other outcome

Market odds, drawn to scale

Each column is 10 blocks. One block = 10 percentage points.

70%

Voters approve the cameras

30%

Any other outcome

Supporters see

Automated surveillance as a crime-prevention aid for local government.

Critics see

Privacy and civil-liberties risks from a fully deployed camera network.

Read this before reading the odds

A "yes" vote may not mean what it seems. Check the ballot wording.

The exact ballot measure wording is not specified in the available information.
It is unclear how a "yes" or "no" vote maps onto keeping or removing the system.
Market odds reflect trader expectations, not a certified vote result.

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