Texas · Police Department
Flock hosts a transparency portal for this agency at transparency.flocksafety.com/san-angelo-tx-pd. Everything below is what that page publishes, read against the 1438 other portals in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. A portal is a rolling 30-day window with no history: the figures are true of the day they were read and cannot be added up.
Not yet read at source by this project. These figures come from EyesOnFlock, an independent aggregator, as of 2026-09-04. Treat them as a second-hand reading: they are good enough to compare portals and to raise a question, and not good enough to quote as this department’s own words. The link above is the department’s page.
What the portal publishes
This agency publishes all five headline figures the template offers.
182 searches, published by the department itself. Across the three states only 38 of 1439 agencies publish this at all, and the logs do not share a schema: there are 10 different column sets among the 38, so what one department discloses is not what the next one does.
LPR systems shall not be used to identify or locate vehicles of individuals who are exercising their constitutional rights such as, attending lawful demonstrations, peaceful protests (without destruction or violence), religious gatherings, or politically related events unless there is a specific, articulable criminal threat to public safety, or other criminal activity associated with a vehicle, individual or the event. LPR systems shall not be used to identify or locate vehicles of individuals related to the enforcement of any rule, mandate or order associated with the declaration of a public health emergency, unless there is an imminent criminal threat to the physical safety of the public. With the exception of official criminal investigations, LPR systems shall not be used to identify or locate vehicles belonging to officers, public officials, co-workers, friends, family members, or any other individual for personal, political, administrative or non-law enforcement purposes. Other than warrant service related to previous traffic violations, use of LPR solely for the detection of minor traffic violations is not permitted. LPR systems shall not be used for civil process or subpoena service. LPR systems shall not be used to collect or analyze data based solely on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics.
Flock’s template offers five: immigration enforcement, traffic enforcement, harassment or intimidation, use based solely on a protected class, and personal use. Comparing portals is the only way to see which agency edited that list, because a single portal reads as though its list were the standard one.
Each line below is a difference between this portal and the template or the norm across three states. None of them is a finding about the department: they are the questions the page itself raises, and the department can answer any of them in a sentence.
This portal among the others
What a portal cannot tell you is what the department signed. For one agency in these three states this project holds the contracts, the statement of work, the drone agreement, the council minutes and three radio broadcasts, and reads them against the portal line by line: Las Cruces, New Mexico. The pattern that read found - a camera count defined to exclude the video cameras, a withheld search audit, a sharing list that stops at the state line while the contract does not - is what the comparisons on the map test against every other portal.